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Hi,
I have two strings:
What I want is to put the text "this is what i want" into string_2.Code:Dim string_1 as String = "sometextblahblahdoodledooo<text>this is what i want</text>blahblahsomeothertext"
Dim string_2 as String
Can someone please help me with this?? :)
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How do you know what needs to be in string_2? Is it everything between <text> and </text>
or
or
Yes, everything between <text> and </text> :)
This link helps you to find out.
does the word "<text>" exists in string1 or did you just used it to indicate the position of string2 to be inserted
Yes, it exists in the string, it's like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by aashish_9601
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Google</title><script>window.google=...
but instead of <title> it is <text>... :)
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Ok, i will check that link later...Quote:
Originally Posted by Lightning
all you gotta do is do a search for the first <text> then do another search for the next <text> then take the string between the > of the first <text> and the < of the next text. You'll get your substring. easy. Scrappers work this way all the time.
I know, but unfortunately pseudocode isn't helping me at all :( :(Quote:
Originally Posted by jakkjakk
This is what I got so far:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lightning
I got rid of the left side of string, but what about the right? I suppose I should use .Length in some way, but how do I know the correct length?Code:
Dim string_1 As String = "blahblahblah<text>Get me!</text>blahblahblah"
Dim string_2 As String = string_1.Remove(0, string_1.IndexOf("<text>") + 6)
string_2 = string_2.Remove(string_2.IndexOf("</text>"), 0) '<-- What do I put here??? I need to remove rest of the unuseful text...
try using regex:
vb Code:
don't forget to import regex:
vb Code:
Thank you a lot :)
I have heard people talk about regex and what it can do, but it is waaay to complex for me:)... But hey, it worked, so thank you again :)
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