Get chars after a find command..

[Fasasoftware]

Dear friend,

I need help please...

i need a little script that find a string and then after take some chars on the right of this string...until encounter another string for example "pippo"...

I treyed this script but not work...

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find "minutes" in field"search"
if the foundtext is "minutes" then
put the char 1 to string"pippo" after the foundtext into field"test"
end if

In other words i need to get the chars on the right of a find command until i encounter a string that i want...in this case pippo....(it's an example)...

Thanks a lot in advance

Lestroso

[Simon]

Here you go Lestroso,

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on mouseUp
   put wordOffset("minutes", fld 1) into tStart
   put wordOffset("pippo", fld 1) into tEnd
   answer word tStart to tEnd of fld 1
end mouseUp

Simon

[dunbarx]

Lestroso.

You see how compact and robust Simon's script is. You do not need to find anything.

But he wrote in a way that will work with words, not strings. This may be what you intended, given your example, even though you used "string" and "chars" instead of "word".

So if this is the case, you are done. But if not, and you really wanted strings (like "min" and "ppo"), can you make his ideas work for you?

Craig Newman

[Fasasoftware]

thank you Simon thery much!!! you helped me really.....so much!!!


Thanks a lot again....

Lestroso

[Simon]

Glad it worked for you!
You should check out wordOffset in the dictionary and figure out the "words to skip". That way if your search terms come up multiple times in a document you can keep track of where you were and then just skip your first find when used in a loop.

Simon

[atout66]

As said Craig Newman, what if you search for a string ?

But if not, and you really wanted strings (like "min" and "ppo"), can you make his ideas work for you?

If I search a string like "<span class="mw-editsection">" the wordOffset() doesn't help.
Even if I write

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"<span class='mw-editsection'>"

I also tried with matchChunck() without success...

[Thierry]

If I search a string like "<span class="mw-editsection">" the wordOffset() doesn't help.
Even if I write

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"<span class='mw-editsection'>"

I also tried with matchChunck() without success...

Use the quote word to replace the " inside your string.

For matchChunk, put your regex in a custom property or a field
and escape your quotes, like: \"

HTH,

Thierry

[atout66]

I've got it with offset()

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put "API"&quote&">/" into laChaine
   get offset(laChaine,Tsource)
   put IT

Thanks

[Thierry]

I've got it with offset()

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put "API"&quote&">/" into laChaine
   get offset(laChaine,Tsource)
   put IT

Thanks

Elle n'est pas belle, la vie ?

Regards,

Thierry