Hello everyone,
not quite sure if what I m trying to do is possible, but here is the basic idea:
Currently I have a simple program takes a username from a html textbox and checks against a list of values in a notepad document. If the name is found the user is given access, if not they are prompted to try again.
What I am trying to do now is have the program check the username format BEFORE it checks against the list.
The program will check for two types of usernames - the first is #xxxxxxx# (9 alphanumeric characters. beginning and ending with a number)....the second is XxxxxxxxxxX (11 alphanumeric charactors, the first and last character in this case will always be a letter) When this second format is encounterd the program must remove the leading and ending letters and leave me with the 9 characters in the center.
is this somthing I should use the split function for?
any suggestions or examples would be greatly appreatiated.
Thanks.
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