extract by delimiter

[Jan Schenkel]

--- On Tue, 12/28/10, Thomas McGrath III <mcgrath3 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> put url "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=22664069&u=f"
> into field 1
> 
> gets an xml like page of data. So I just extracted the
> yweather: info I needed:
> 
> example:
> <yweather:location city="Bethel Park"
> region="PA"   country="United States"/>
> 
> Then I replace "<" with "" in field 1 
> etc till I got the data that I was left with before
> 

If it's an XML to begin with, why not use the revXML external library to parse it? Unless you're building an iOS app, of course, as this has no externals support - but then you could use Ken Ray's stsXmlLib:
<http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm>

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.
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