get Z between X and Y from a string

[tom13]

Sigh... I wrote tons of text in this thread and it somehow all got deleted after I pressed submit.. probably some forum bug when there is too much text?

Okay.. I'll make it short this time.

I want to get a string from a string with _StringBetween

The string looks like this: "<divclass="health-stat"><h4>Health:</h4><p><span>12065</span></p></div>"

So I coded this:

#include <INet.au3>
#include <String.au3>

$url = "http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Stormscale&n=Sodar"
$rawsource = _INetGetSource ($url)
$source = StringStripWS($rawsource, 8)

$health_start = "<h4>Health:</h4><p><span>"
$health_end = "</span></p>"
$health = _StringBetween ( $source, $health_start, $health_end)

MsgBox(4096, "Test", $health, 10)

But when I execute it it gives me an empty string as return.. anyone knows why or what I do wrong?

It should, in the example above, return "12065"

Edited November 7, 2007 by tom13

[tom13]

erm for some reason there is no text? I wrote so much and now there is nothing..

edit: remade it in a short version

Edited November 7, 2007 by tom13

[SmOke_N]

1. You need to look up "escape characters" if you are going to use the RegExp part of _StringBetween.

2. The return value is not a regular variable, it's an Array.

[tom13]

1. You need to look up "escape characters" if you are going to use the RegExp part of _StringBetween.

2. The return value is not a regular variable, it's an Array.

thanks! didn't know I had to use an array because its only found 1 time