String read from a standard format?

[aommaster]

Hey guys!

I would like to have my program read some data from a standard format of strings. Each string has the following format:

where xxxxx could be any number of characters, and will (obviously), take the name of a color.

Is there any way to quickly extract the xxxxx out of the string, or do I need to use a combination of stringleft, stringright and stringtrim functions?

Thanks!

[Valuater]

_StringBetween()

see help

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[aommaster]

Wow.. you guys have thought of everything

Question for you: Is there any way of having this function return the first instance? Or do I have to look up the array produced directly to get that information?

[Valuater]

This gives the 1st result...

#include <String.au3>

$String = "[color=brown]"

$String = _StringBetween($String, "[color=", "]")

If IsArray($String) Then MsgBox(0x0, "color", $String[0])

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Edited December 24, 2008 by Valuater

[aommaster]

Haha.. okay.. so I do need to get it out of the array

Thank you very much for your help!

[Valuater]

Haha.. okay.. so I do need to get it out of the array

Thank you very much for your help!

Welcome... Merry Xmas!

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[aommaster]

Merry Christmas to you too!

I got one more problem from this

The string I am trying to manipulate is this:

Finally, please post a new [color=blue][b]HijackThis[/b][/color] log, and a description of any remaining problems.

After previous manipulation the string now looks like this:

Finally, please post a new [color=blue]<b>HijackThis</b></span> log, and a description of any remaining problems.

I would like to convert:

[color=blue]

to

<span style='color:blue'>

So, I used your method with the stringbetween to get the color of the font. I have the whole span style tag ready to be switched, but I'm not sure how to replace the color=blue tag by that string. I was thinking a stringregexpreplace, but I don't want it replace any tags except those with a color statement.

Any ideas?

Thanks again

[aommaster]

Nevermind.. figured it out