Regular Expressions

[Vec84]

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 still don't understand how to implement this. The examples also don't seem to help my understanding of the syntax.

I've saved the caption property into a variable. Then created a new instance of the RegExp and tried to match method to return the numbers. I've tried loads of variations but can't seem to get it to work.

re = HIUtils.RegExpr ([0-9]);

re.Match (MYCAPTION);

Log.Message (MYCAPTION);

This is the latest I've tried however I've tried RegExp new instance and I'm just not getting the way to set it up.

[Marsha_R]

Let's see an example of your caption string.

[Vec84]

Motor - Ad 1112223445 name name

[Vec84]

It's the number I require

[Marsha_R]

Is the number always in the same position in the string or is the "Motor - Ad" part a random size?

[Vec84]

It could change position

[Marsha_R]

Will there be any other numbers before the 10 digit one?

[Vec84]

No just this 10 digit number

[Marsha_R]

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.

[Vec84]

I'll give that a try in the morning...Thanks very much for your help Marsha.