Something like this?
julia> search(exString, srchStr)
21:30
julia> exString[search(exString, srchStr)[end]+1:end] |> strip |> split
7-element Array{SubString{ASCIIString},1}:
"+200"
"people"
"Starting"
"number:"
"5"
"now"
"16.5A_C"
julia> parse(Int, ans[1])
200
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Yared Melese <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was trying to parse a number from string as shown below. Would you
> please let me know if there is easy way to get the number after
> a specific string ? please note that the string can be variable(different)
>
> goal is to specify search string and put out exact number with out any
> text before and after the number.
>
> The current program shown below has two faults
> 1. on line 10, I have to manually enter starting word but cannot put a
> variable as shown below
> c = match(r"$srchStr[\w|\w %s%f%f|.|:|+]*", b[srchInd])
>
> 2. I have to only get a number, that means anything in front and behind
> that number should be stripped off
>
>
>
> exString = "Exact number 390 \n Exact qty: +200 people \n Starting
> number: 5 now 16.5A_C"
> srchStr ="Exact qty:"
> b= split(exString,"\n") # put each line to an array form
> #find index of excact string match
> for i in 1:length(b)
> if contains(b[i], srchStr) == true
> srchInd = i
> end
> end
> c = match(r"$srchStr[\w|\w %s%f%f|.|:|+]*", b[srchInd])
> d=replace(c.match, srchStr,"")
> print(d)
>
