look into the mid() function.
barring an elegant regex solution, you could do:
<cfset myNumbers = listFirst(listLast(myString, '['), ']') />
On 10/19/07, Orlini, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to display a set of characters after a string (or in this case one
> chgarater) in a text file is found.
>
> For example, after the search finds the "[" bracket, how can I tell it to
> display a certian amount of characters after this "["?
>
> if the string is [11999922] I want it to display only the characters after
> which would be 11999922
>
> Thanks.
>
> RO
> HWW
>
> Here is my code:
>
> <cffile action="read" file="e:\tracetest2.txt" variable="thetrace2">
> <pre>
> <cfoutput>
>
> <CFSET thetrace2 = #trim(thetrace2)#>
> <font face="Verdana" size="1"><b>
> #left(thetrace2, 50)#
> </b></font>
> </pre>
>
> This output tells me the "[" bracket is 36 spaces
>
> <cfset stringToSearch = "#left(thetrace2, 50)#">
> #findoneof("[",stringToSearch)#<br>
> </cfoutput>
>
>
>
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