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Considering the level of programming knowledge it seems most of you have, I must admit to being embarassed for asking this question. But frankly I am a programming novice and so I am hopeful that an answer here will be relatively quick and painless.

Simply put: I would like to find all instances of a random 10-digit number (whose first 3 digits begin with '360') on a web page, and write them to a text file.

Your suggestions for doing this would be very appreciated!

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what tagname is is in, because all you need to find is the tagname then innertext it. Can I ask what webpage is this?

0x576520616C6C206469652C206C697665206C69666520617320696620796F75207765726520696E20746865206C617374207365636F6E642E

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what tagname is is in, because all you need to find is the tagname then innertext it. Can I ask what webpage is this?

TerarinK, the web page is on an intranet site.

You'll need to use the clipboard to copy the text of the entire page or to use the browser libraries (IE.au3, FF.au3) to read the document text (and if it contains frames then frames as well) and parse it using the StringRegExp function.

Excellent, Authenticity! That helped a great deal. My only problem now is that I need to filter multiple instances of the same number (in many cases there are extended numbers on the same page that may look like:

3601234567

3601234567-321

3601234567-322

3607654321

3607654321-321

3607654321-322

...etc...

My StringRegExp is picking up the first 10 digits of all of them, and I need only the first instance (minus the -xxx).

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TerarinK, the web page is on an intranet site.

Excellent, Authenticity! That helped a great deal. My only problem now is that I need to filter multiple instances of the same number (in many cases there are extended numbers on the same page that may look like:

3601234567

3601234567-321

3601234567-322

3607654321

3607654321-321

3607654321-322

...etc...

My StringRegExp is picking up the first 10 digits of all of them, and I need only the first instance (minus the -xxx).

I made a script to remove duplicates from a text file and then it puts all original lines into a new text file.

#Include <File.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
Dim $oFile,$nFile

_FileReadToArray("old_text.txt",$oFile)
$nFile = _ArrayUnique($oFile)
_FileWriteFromArray("new_text.txt",$nFile)

You could just run this after you collected all the numbers.

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Since the RegExp returns an array, you can just #include <array.au3> and pass your array through _ArrayUnique()

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