Help spliting a string

[Dryden]

Hi guys. I need some help.

I'm tring to read the fields of a file the problem is that this kind of files are all messed up.

I already have the file contents in a string and it goes something like this:

EX:

bla bla bla bla bla bla +bla bla bla ++bla bla bla bla ++++bla bla bla ++bla bla bla ++++bla bla bla bla ++bla bla ++++++bla bla bla ++++bla bla bla

so I wanted to split the variable whenever I encounter 4 plus signs (++++), and show each one of the variables.

thx in advance.

[AdmiralAlkex]

lookup StringSplit() and _ArrayDisplay() in the helpfile

[Dryden]

I already tried StringSplit, the problem is that I can't make it work with "++++" as a delimiter, cos it acts the same either I put "+" or "++" or "+++", and I want it only to split in "++++"

and btw I don't know how many ++++ there will be, so I can't define the array. isn't there a way to count them before creating the array?

Edited February 22, 2008 by Dryden

[weaponx]

StringSplit ( "string", "delimiters" [, flag ] )

[optional] If flag is 0 (the default), then each character in the delimiter string will mark where to split the string. If flag is 1, then the entire delimiter string is needed to mark the split.

flag needs to be 1

[DW1]

ok... in your example you show "+++++" (5 plus') but want to detect "++++" (4 plus'). So should the "+++++" (5 plus') be detected as a "++++" (4 plus')? If so, would you want the string after the last plus or only after the fourth (meaning the string would start with "+")?

This may be a job for StringRegExp()