Re: more questions...
Re: more questions...
- Subject: Re: more questions...
- From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 22:38:57 -0700
On or near 7/26/2002 1:57 PM, Rips Ethan J at email@hidden observed:
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How would one go about pulling a substring (i.e., an item code) from a
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larger string (the entire file name)? Can it be done via TIDs or must it be
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done by some other means? Unless I'm missing something, ASLG, & the Goodman
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book are silent on this one (at least, I can't hear them)...
You mean like getting "AB123CDEF" and extracting the numeric part, assuming
it is always 3 digits preceded by two letters?
set x to text 3 thru 5 of "AB123CDEF"
--x= "123"
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