Searching positions in a string?

[DANZIG]

Hello All,

I'm working on a script to search for the values in an SMS mif, I'm sure that many of you know what the invormation in a mif looks like. All vaules are enclose in ()'s, some values are for the form and some values are machine/user information. The locations of the form data and the user/machine data are static in order but not in string length.

It would look something like this:
(1)(don't want)(don't want)(3)(4)(howdy)(6)(1)(hola)(13)(7)

In perl I would use an expression like this:
$line = "(1)(don't want)(don't want)(3)(4)(howdy)(6)(1)(hola)(13)(7)"
if ( $line=~/((.*?))/ ){print "$_\n";}

I'm not sure as to how to pull the values in vbs though. Does anybody know what a similar expression would look like in vbs?


Thanks in advance.

 

[browolf]

i dont know if this is the proper way but you could split the string on &quot("

mifarray = split(mif,&quot(&quot

then remove the first '(' and the last ')'

somthing like:
1stvar = right(mifarray(0),len(mifarray(0))-1)
lastvar = left(mifarray(0),len(mifarray(0))-1)



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[browolf]

oh
lastvar = left(mifarray(10),len(mifarray(0))-1) ===============
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[DANZIG]

Thanks Browolf, it works like a charm.