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[meight]

Hi, it's basically a parser.

I will be getting text from a text file and putting it into a textbox on my form for manipulation. I'll give you an example of the text I need to grab from it and what the text would look like.

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[08:54:30] @@name sends, "message"
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The parts I've colored red and underlined are the parts I need to take from the text and nothing else. The problem is that the name part (which always appears after the "@@" will always be different in length and so will the "message" part (which appears always in quote marks, just like the "@@").

I've never really worked with text manipulation or trying to extract certain bits of text before, so any help will be appreciated, i'm pretty sure it's a easy job but I'm not sure of the commands.

The overall thing is, I need to search if a certain part of text is in the message part, if not move on until the next existence, if it is, grab the name.

Cheers.