Tom- Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 6:03:26 PM, you wrote:
> The reason I ask is I am making filenames by merging a name like > "Thomas" or "Tom" with the date converted to seconds as in > "Thomas1376625600.txt" or "Tom1376625600.txt" Regex to the rescue: get matchtext(tFileName, "([A-Za-z]+)([0-9]+)", tName, tSeconds) -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode