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StrSubWild Problem
Question:
I am using StrSubWild to extract a substring matching wildcarded text from within a larger string. However I keep getting a null string as the result yet my wildcard string should match some text in my larger string.string = "name:!new_account!:98765:12345:Tipical AUser:/home/paul:/bin/csh" wildcard = ":!*:" result = StrSubWild( string, wildcard, 1 )
Answer:
The problem seems to be that the 'pattern' doesn't match at the specified 'start' position. StrIndexWild can be used to locate the start position.string = "name:!new_account!:98765:12345:Tipical AUser:/home/paul:/bin/csh" wildcard = ":!*:" start = StrIndexWild( string, wildcard, 1 ) result = StrSubWild( string, wildcard, start ) Mesage( "StrSubWild Result", result ) exit
Article ID: W17269
File Created: 2007:07:03:14:29:08
Last Updated: 2007:07:03:14:29:08