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Re: Stregex question - extracting substring [message #87008 is a reply to message #87007]

Thu, 19 December 2013 12:53

John Correira
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Registered: August 2011

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On 12/19/2013 03:44 PM, Paul Mallas wrote:
> I am trying to extract a substring after a colon. My string looks
> like:
>
> xxxxxx:yyyyyyyyy
>
> where x's can be spaces, upper and lower case letters
>
> then there's the colon
>
> and finally the y's, which can be pretty much anything and will often
> include colons (which is why strsplit("xxxxxx:yyyyyyyyy", ":") won't
> work for me here)
>
> I just want the yyyyyyyyyy part and have been trying to extract it
> with stregex, but no luck. But before I give up and will try a
> different approach, does anyone know how to construct a regular
> expression for IDL that would extract just the yyyy.. part with
> stregex?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>

Not a stregex solution, but I think something like

strjoin((strsplit(string,':',/extract))[1:*],':')

would do it.

John

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		Stregex question - extracting substring By: PMan on Thu, 19 December 2013 12:44
		Re: Stregex question - extracting substring By: John Correira on Thu, 19 December 2013 12:53
		Re: Stregex question - extracting substring By: Helder Marchetto on Thu, 19 December 2013 13:09
		Re: Stregex question - extracting substring By: Phillip Bitzer on Thu, 19 December 2013 14:31
		Re: Stregex question - extracting substring By: PMan on Fri, 20 December 2013 07:53

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