Matchtext

[Alex Rice]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:39  AM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Yves COPPE wrote:
>
>>     if  
>> matchtext(theLine,"(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/([0-9][0- 
>> 9])",theDay,TheMonth,TheYear) is true then
>
> Try this:
> "([ 0][1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/([0-9][0-9])"

Here is one that handles different lengths for the digits, but doesn't  
check the ranges of the day and month numbers. But that could be done  
in transcript.

put matchText(tLine, "(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{2,4})", tDay, tMo, tYr)


Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com