String manipulation 1

[AP81]

I have an XML stream parsed from Quickbooks and I want to retrieve certain information from the stream. Basically move through the document and take information from within the XML tags. In VB, I could use:

intStart = strStream.IndexOf(&quot;<Customer>&quot
intEnd = strStream.IndexOf(&quot;</Customer>&quot
'take string between Start and End
strTxt = strStream.SubString(intStart , intEnd)
//shorten string to start from last position
strStream = strStream.SubString(intEnd)
...
etc.

How can I do this in Delphi?
I can copy buy using:
Copy(strStream, intStart, intEnd);
I am not sure of the rest...

Is there a more efficient way of doing this, seeing as the string is several thousand characters?





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[hilfy]

If your initial string of XML has Carriage Return/Line Feeds in it, you can load it into a TStringList and parse it line by line.

If you want to find where a substring is located within a string, use the Pos() function.

-D

 

[AP81]

Thanks hilfy, spot on.




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[svanels]

Check out
How to operate with Strings
faq102-3583 in the FAQ area

Steven van Els
SAvanEls@cq-link.sr