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Re: Parsing text from a string
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Re: Parsing text from a string


  • Subject: Re: Parsing text from a string
  • From: John Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:11:35 -0500

On 03/16/05 at -0800 Todd Geist said this

>I am just full of questions today   :>)
>
>If I have the string "Have a [Nice] [Day]"
>
>I want what is in the first set of brackets "Nice".  The brackets will
>always be somewhere in the string and I want what is in side of them.
>
>Thanks so much for all your help?


Here's a method that doesn't use text item delimiters:

--> cut <--
set txtStr to "Have a [Nice] [Day]"
set rplyStr to text ((offset of "[" in txtStr) + 1) thru ((offset of "]" in txtStr) - 1) of txtStr
--> cut <--


There's only 2 lines, the second one is wrapped.
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