Hey cool! I'd use Jims (an marks) method. MUCH simpler.
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:06 PM Jim Lambert via use-livecode <
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> Building on what Mark Wieder elegantly wrote:
>
> > MarkW wrote:
> >
> > filter lotsOfText with "*selkirkst*skyrider1*”
>
> function e
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
If the first search string can be anywhere before the second search string, and
the second search string can be anywhere (or nowhere) after the first string,
use LIKE '%selkirkst%' OR LIKE '%skyrider1%'
I posted some code, and also a sample stack, for converting an array to a
memory database an
I understood he wants lines with either or.
Bob S
> On Jun 15, 2018, at 10:05 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 06/15/2018 08:45 AM, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode wrote:
>> Any suggestions?
>
> filter lotsOfText with "*selkirkst*skyrider1*"
>
> --
> Mark Wieder
> ahsoftw...@gm
Glad it worked. If it turns out there is a reason not to use trueword and
a for each loop, the same basic algorithm can be used with offset() but it
would be a bit more convoluted.
Basically, find the first offset for the beginning string, then use that to
skip chars to look for both the beginnin
Hi Mike,
Yes this worksnever used or knew about trueword.
thanks!
Glen
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
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> Try this..
>
> on mouseup
>local tCharOffset
>--set the text of field 1 to the text of field 1
>put the
Slightly cleaned up, and adjusted to empty tPair after a match. (on the
off chance there is a second ending without a matching new beginning word)
> on mouseup
>put the text of field 1 into tText
>put "beginning" into tstartword -- string begin
>put "ending" into tEndword -- string
Try this..
on mouseup
local tCharOffset
--set the text of field 1 to the text of field 1
put the text of field 1 into tText
put "beginning" into tstartword -- string begin
put "ending" into tEndword -- string end
put 1 into tCounter -- tracks current word
repeat for each truew
On 06/15/2018 08:45 AM, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode wrote:
Any suggestions?
filter lotsOfText with "*selkirkst*skyrider1*"
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Mike, I believe that you are correct in understanding what I am trying to
extract.
I will need a bit more time to work through your solution.
regards,
Glen
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Hi Jerry,
I may be wrong but it looks like your solution assumes that the line has
the beginning and ending I am looking for in the first and last
positions...in my example text that I gave it was all one line and the
string I am looking for is somewhere in the middle. I may not have been
clear bu
Bob, this is an interesting approach using SQL. I will try and setup a
simple test with SQLite.
thanks
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
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> one way would be to populate a memory database, then query it with LIKE:
>
> SELECT * FR
I’m a little confused about the requirements. Can the desired text span lines?
If not, it changes things slightly.
Offset is something you can use. Find location of end token. Find location of
first start token. Find location of next start token. If before end token, try
again until after or no
If I understand correctly.. If you find the beginning string occurrence,
and then find another beginning string, you want to ignore the first, and
only take strings where beginning and end have no intermediate beginnings?
Like this I mean..
beginning blah blah blah blah blah *beginning blah blah b
Will this do what you want? (untested)
put empty into tExtract
repeat for each line L in bigText
if char -9 to -1 of L is “skyrider1” then
if char 1 to 9 of L is “selkirkst” then
put L & return after tExtract
end if
end if
end repeat
if char -1 of tExtract is return then delete c
one way would be to populate a memory database, then query it with LIKE:
SELECT * FROM memorydb WHERE stringtext LIKE 'selkirkst%' OR stringtext LIKE
'%skyrider1'
If you need lines that have both use a single comparison 'selkirkst%skyrider1'
Sometimes SQL is the best way to find things.
Bob S
Hello,
I have a couple of hundred pages of text where I need to extract out a
different string.
The ending of each string I need has the same endingskyrider1
The beginning of each string is the same selkirkst
The middle of each string can be any text.
The problem is that within each line
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