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If it's going to be the same string length each time, you could truncate it by string length.

If it's going to the second OU= each time, you could do a Stringinstr()

If you're always going to have the last part be "OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net" you could use stringright() (or alternatively stringleft())

A few more examples of possible DN's would help find the best match for you...

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Can what you are looking for always be described as the second instance of text that starts with 'OU=' and ends with ',' ?

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Why not stringsplit with the delimit as "," then you get a array with which to test this way you can get them all CN, OU and DC. You then could run this through a loop that will test each one of the these and what it equals to.

CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net

CN Last

CN First

OU Accounts

OU Corporate

OU FSGN

DC fsgn

DC net

Else you could just stringbetween or stringinstr. Perhaps stringinstr would be better of the two here because you have some control over OU=Coporate instead of finding text between two strings

You could always use regex if you want to.

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Yes stringinstr will work because even if the string changes it will always be searching for OU=Corporate regardless to if it is place somewhere else. The only way it fails is if you have incorrect spelling or it isn't simply in the thing you are searching. That is why I said to stringsplit then based off what you got use even one, you get a much better overall effect with that and you can't also do every one a unique search

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Yes that is correct.

Then this should do it.

$string = "CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net"

$firstpass = StringTrimLeft($string, StringInStr($string, "OU=") + 2)
ConsoleWrite($firstpass & @CRLF); just for testing
$secondpass = StringTrimLeft($firstpass, StringInStr($firstpass, "OU=") + 2)
ConsoleWrite($secondpass & @CRLF); just for testing
$result = StringMid($secondpass, 1, StringInStr($secondpass, ",") - 1)
ConsoleWrite($result & @CRLF); just for testing

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The answer was given

Lke This...

$string = "CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net"

$Split = StringSplit( $string, ",")

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You could easily do:

StringInStr("CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net", "OU=Corporate")oÝ÷ ÚØb³¥¬±«k¹ë-jצz{l¢Ø^*.z0Ø­rëyË@±ú++-®)à²bµ«­¢+ØÀÌØíÍMÑÉ¥¹ôMÑÉ¥¹MÁ±¥Ð ÅÕ½Ðí
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Doh, I misinterpreted his desired results.... using Valuaters corrected but much more elegant method it would be:

$string = "CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net"

$Split = StringSplit( $string, ",")

MsgBox(4096, "tada!", $Split[4])

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I've had a lot of practice with the string functions :)

anyone do this in stringregexp yet? I quit reading when it went way over my head, does scripting experience help you understand that crap any better :lmao: ?

$string = "CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net"
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $string = ' & $string & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf);### Debug Console
$newstring=stringtrimright(StringTrimLeft($string,StringInStr($string,",",2,3)),(stringlen($string)-stringinstr($string,",",2,-3)+1))
ConsoleWrite('@@ Debug(' & @ScriptLineNumber & ') : $newstring = ' & $newstring & @crlf & '>Error code: ' & @error & @crlf);### Debug Console
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Yes I have done it in a stringregexp:

StringRegExp($sValue, "(?i)(\w*)=(\w*)", 4)

this will result in:

[0,0] = CN=Last
[0,1] = CN
[0,2] = Last
[1,0] = OU=Accounts
[1,1] = OU
[1,2] = Accounts
[2,0] = OU=Corporate
[2,1] = OU
[2,2] = Corporate
[3,0] = OU=FSGN
[3,1] = OU
[3,2] = FSGN
[4,0] = DC=fsgn
[4,1] = DC
[4,2] = fsgn
[5,0] = DC=net
[5,1] = DC
[5,2] = net

As you see this does bring up a bug in the " First" as I am unsure how he got that. There might be other way to accomplish this task by only one CN,OU and DC followed by the name seperated by a comma as I am sure he has done but then that leads tothe "\" that I'm unsure of. Please explain so we can get a following functioning example put up here This way you would have to create a double loop so "For To Unbound Next" follow by another one.

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As you see this does bring up a bug in the " First" as I am unsure how he got that. There might be other way to accomplish this task by only one CN,OU and DC followed by the name seperated by a comma as I am sure he has done but then that leads tothe "\" that I'm unsure of. Please explain so we can get a following functioning example put up here This way you would have to create a double loop so "For To Unbound Next" follow by another one.

First of all I want to thank everyone for their responses to this problem, you have been most helpful and I am greatly appreciative.

To answer your question the "/" is used when you don't want to include the "," as part of the Samid string.

The only part I need out of it however is "OU=Corporate" in this example, which could differ from location to location but always starts with "OU=" and always is in the 3rd comma set.

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You could easily do:

StringInStr("CN=Last\, First,OU=Accounts,OU=Corporate,OU=FSGN,DC=fsgn,DC=net", "OU=Corporate")oÝ÷ ÚØb³¥¬±«k¹ë-jצz{l¢Ø^*.z0Ø­rëyË@±ú++-®)à²bµ«­¢+ØÀÌØíÍMÑÉ¥¹ôMÑÉ¥¹MÁ±¥Ð ÅÕ½Ðí
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This would work if my string will always be "OU=Corporate", but it could be "OU=Chicago" or several other locations, im think I need to split the strings like you have done but into a case where I can always select the 3rd case....

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