itemDelimiter

[Brian Yennie]

You've got a couple options (at least):

1) Use regex, see matchText and match on something like 
"<text>(.*)</text>"
2) Use offset(), as you imagined, something like:

put "<title>" into startTag
put offset(startTag, theHTML) into startOffset
if (startOffset > 0) then
   put offset(endTag, theHTML, startOffset + length(startTag) - 1) into 
endOffset
   if (endOffset > 0) then
       put char startOffset to (startOffset + endOffset - 1) of theHTML 
into theTitle
   end if
end if


HTH

- Brian

> I was wondering if the itemDelimiter can be more than one character? I 
> mean instead of "," or ":" can it be "<!--display paragraphs-->" ?
> If the answer is NO then can someone help me understand how to sift 
> through the html below to just extract the title text and the 2 
> paragraph texts? I know I can offset("<title>") field "HTML" but then 
> what can I do to extract the text after that?
> It may be obvious but for the life of me I can't 'see' it.