reading parts of string 1

[arkadia93]

I have a string and I want to find a particular character, and then read the rest of the string from the character after that until the end of the string (e.g. if I have the string 'Order No:4745654', I only want the '4745654') Can anybody tell me how to do this?

 

[Abraxus]

The instr function will return the position in the string of the character you want to find, so if you used the mid function you could return a substring that started at the first instance found by instr and extended to len(string) (the length of the string).

 

[Zoom1177]

You could use a function called Mid

it returns a specified number of characters from any position in a string

example:

dim strExtract

strextract ="Find Me in here"

response.write mid(strextract,6,2)

this will write the word: Me

i hope that helped

 

[arkadia93]

Thanks Ecwcee...that was just what I was looking for

 

[Abraxus]

Happy to help

 

[onpnt]

I think you would be a little safer off using something that will not restrict you to positioning yourself in the string like Regular Expressions

Here is a FAQ on it

How do I extract values from a given value?
faq333-3645

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[emozley]

What about using the split function with : as the watch character. Then just take the 2nd element in the array.