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Re: Stregex question - extracting substring [message #87010 is a reply to message #87008]

Thu, 19 December 2013 13:09

Helder Marchetto
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Registered: November 2011

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On Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:53:08 PM UTC+1, John Correira wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 03:44 PM, Paul Mallas wrote:
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>> I am trying to extract a substring after a colon. My string looks
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>> like:
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>> xxxxxx:yyyyyyyyy
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>> where x's can be spaces, upper and lower case letters
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>> then there's the colon
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>> and finally the y's, which can be pretty much anything and will often
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>> include colons (which is why strsplit("xxxxxx:yyyyyyyyy", ":") won't
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>> work for me here)
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>> I just want the yyyyyyyyyy part and have been trying to extract it
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>> with stregex, but no luck. But before I give up and will try a
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>> different approach, does anyone know how to construct a regular
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>> expression for IDL that would extract just the yyyy.. part with
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>> stregex?
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>> Thanks for your time.
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> Not a stregex solution, but I think something like
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> strjoin((strsplit(string,':',/extract))[1:*],':')
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> would do it.
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> John

Hi John
I just answered and the original post was deleted, so my answer was dumped.
My solution was: strmid(str,strpos(str,':')+1)
It's good as long as there is at least one ':'. (if necessary one can check for it...).

Cheers,
h

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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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