Selecting text using REGEX

[Alex Rice]

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 10:16  PM, Bojsza wrote:

> I have a large file that I have loaded into a field "incoming". I wish 
> to parse particular text pieces out into another field "outgoing".
>
> The text is always between "value=question?>"  and ends with "<" #the 
> quotes are not part of the text
>
> example
>
> value=question?> TEXT I WISH TO PARSE OUT<
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful (I have several hundred lines to 
> search through).

I good job for regular expressions. Using regex the solution might vary 
depending if each a match is allowed to span more than one line or not. 
One solution could be:

local tResult
repeat for each line tLine in fld "incoming"
   if matchText(tLine, "value=question\?>(.+)<", tMatch) then
     put tMatch & linefeed after tResult
   end if
end repeat
put tResult into fld "outgoing"


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