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Vec84
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8 years ago

Regular Expressions

Hello, I have a header bar with a caption property that contains words and numbers. I want to extract the a 10 digit number from the caption string. I've read through the documentation however I...
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    HKosova
    8 years ago
    MYCAPTION.match(/\d{10}/)[0]

    extracts a 10-digit number from the variable MYCAPTION.

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Vec84
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No just this 10 digit number
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Marsha_R
Moderator
8 years ago

What I did for something similar was to use aqString.Trim to get all the spaces out of the string and then loop through it a character at a time looking for a digit.  That will get you the position of the first digit.  Then you can use aqString.Substring to get the 10 digits.

 

I never found a way to use the regular expressions for this.  Looks like you can use them to compare but not for string manipulation.