Bit of regex

This is my second post in this thread... The first one I made I got accused of writing a hack. Id just like to start off saying that this is no such thing. If you would look at my code instead of just assuming you could see that.

Anyhoo. This is a small sub routine for my bot. The deal is when a player dies in the game a bounty number is displayed at the end of there name. The bounty number is always between brackets "(402)" And can be anywhere from (0) to (30000).

Now the issue is that i need to remove this number from there name so the bot can reply to them. Here is the code I came up with using regex.

Killed(0) is the person who got the kill
m is match. (each match in string)
Then item_index route is adding the name to a list for further processing.

Code:

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t = killed(0)
      re.Pattern = "\(*\d\d*\)$"
      re.Global = True
      For Each m In re.Execute(t)
      killed2 = Split(killed(0), m.Value)
      item_index = SendMessage2(List1.hwnd, LB_FINDSTRING, -1, killed2(0))
        Next

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What I was thinking could be done is some reverse parsing. Since the bounty is displayed at the end of a name and is always encapsulated in ()'s if there was some way to find the first ( from right to left in a string that would work

Ah and on a side note the players name May or may not contain brackets.

I think this will do what you want

Code:

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Private Function ParseName(ByVal s As String)
    Return s.Substring(0, s.LastIndexOf("("))
End Function

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Hum I see what your trying to do and I think it would work. Although I dont think that is the correct code for Visual basic. Maby its VB.net though then again I wouldn't know as Ive never used it.

sorry about that, I assumed .net. I haven't used vb6 in a long time but it will be something like this:

vb Code:

Mid$(s, 1, InStrRev(s, "("))

I don't think that's completely right, but I don't have vs6 installed to test right now.