Building on what Mark Wieder elegantly wrote:
> MarkW wrote:
>
> filter lotsOfText with "*selkirkst*skyrider1*”
function extractStrings lotsOfText, startWord, endWord
replace cr with space in lotsOfText -- Makes sure lotsOfText is just a
single line
replace startWord with cr & startWord in lotsOfText -- Makes sure a
line starts with the startWord
replace endWord with endWord & cr in lotsOfText -- Makes sure a line
ends with the endWord
filter lotsOfText with "*" & startWord & "*" & endWord — Mark’s
suggestion
return lotsOfText
end extractStrings
Try it with your original gibberish. I‘ve added a second instance of the string
you want to extract to show that the function will return all instances.
Use the *selkirkst* function to check whether a *string* contains a
specified pattern. If *selkirkst* includes a pair of parentheses, the
position of the substring matching the part of theregular expression inside
the parentheses is placed in the variables in the *positionVarsList*. The
number of the first character in the matching substring is placed in the
first variable in the positionVarsList, and the number of the last
*selkirkst is
placed in the second **skyrider1*. Additional starting and ending
positions, matching additional parenthetical expressions, are placed in
additional pairs of variables in thepositionVarsList. If the
*selkirkst* function
returns false, the values of the variables in the positionVarsListare not
*selkirkst is
placed in the third **skyrider1*. changed. The string and regularExpression are
always case-sensitive,
regardless of the setting of the caseSensitive property. (If you need to
make a case-insensitive comparison, use "(?i)" at the start of the
regularExpression to make the match case-insensitive.)
Jim Lambert
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