How to "retrieve" only useful information in a long list

Mark Smith mark at maseurope.net
Fri Feb 3 09:08:32 EST 2006


Untested:

put offset("FIXED WORDINGS HERE", fld "myField") + length("FIXED  
WORDINGS HERE") into startChar
put offset(("ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE", fld "myField") - 1 into  
endChar
get char startChar to endChar of fld "myField"

Hope that helps,

Mark

On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:01, alex wu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have problem in "retrieving" wanted information in a
> list field.
>
> For example, the list field has the following content:
>
> Runtime Revolution is a great ...................
> .................................................
> ......................................
>
> FIXED WORDINGS HERE
>
> This is paragraph 2..............................
> ...................................
>
> Paragraph 3 start here...........................
> .................................................
> ................
>
> Paragraph 4 start here...........................
> .................................................
> ................
>
> Paragraph 5 start here...........................
> .................................................
> ................
>
> ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE
>
> This is the last paragraph ......................
> ............
>
>
> Note:
> 1. The "FIXED WORDINGS HERE" and "ANOTHER FIXED
> WORDINGS HERE" always appear in that two positions.
>
> 2. The contents of all paragraphs will be different
> with different list.
>
> Here's what I want to do:
>
> I only want the content from "FIXED WORDINGS HERE" to
> "ANOTHER FIXED WORDINGS HERE". Because this is the
> information I only needed.  How can I do that?
>
> P.S.Actually the list are very long, much longer than
> the above example.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Alex
>
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