search for regular expression in text and put the results into an array

[Jim Ault]

I don't use the xml library to do the simple tag processing for three  
types of tags
Chunk expressions are so fast that I get better speed and control of  
the data parsing.

------- Use these steps to get started----

on test
    replace cr with empty in xmlBlock
    replace quote with "'" in xmlBlock  --(apostrophe ' char)
    --now you can use quote expressions without worries
    --   such as in the next line
    replace "<statuses type='array'>" with (cr & "<statuses  
type='array'>") in xmlBlock
    filter xmlBlock with "<statuses type='array'>*"

    put 0 into statusCount
    repeat for each line statusArrLine in xmlBlock
       replace "<status>" with (cr & "<status>") in statusArrLine
       replace "</status>" with ("</status>" & cr) in statusArrLine
       filter statusArrLine with "<status>*"

       repeat for each line statusTag in statusArrLine
          replace "<status>" with empty in statusTag
          replace "</status>" with empty in statusTag
          --now we have the data only, and on a single line
          add 1 to statusCount
          put statusTag into storArray[statusCount]

       end repeat
    end repeat

    --> statusCount = total
    --> storArray[num] = strings storage
end test

Hope this helps.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:06 PM, runrev260805 at m-r-d.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am absolutely new to XML, so please forgive me for this question.
>
> I have an XML file which looks similar like this.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <statuses type="array">
> <status>blah blah bla
>   <some other>blah blah blah
>      <and so on></status>
>
>
> The <status>...</status> part is repeating many times, but with  
> different content.
>
> i want to put the <status>...</status>part  into an array. So i get  
> to know how often this part is in the xml file. I then want to  
> extract some text of each of this <status>....</status> section. My  
> main problem is how to seperate each <Status...> </status> section.  
> Do i have to use the XML library? Or is there another way?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias