[Gambas-user] gb.pcre help anyone?

[Benoit Minisini]

On mercredi 23 juillet 2008, Ron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my quest to parse a string to get some values from it, I ended up
> with way to much string functions.
>
> So I want to parse it a bit more efficient with gb.pcre... so far so
> good, but I 'm stumped as how to use it.
> Very sparse docs found on gambasdoc.org, but can anybody give an example?
>
> Let say I have this:
> Temp #01[4D0000004FC78A26]=24.31C
>
> And want to get the address (between the brackets) and the temp with the
> use of gb.pcre...
>
> Maybe a competition; who can get those values with the least amount of
> Gambas code...? ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Ron_2nd
>

You don't need gb.pcre for simple extraction. You can use the built-in Scan() 
function:

DIM sStr AS String = "Temp #01[4D0000004FC78A26]=24.31C"
DIM aScan AS String[]
aScan = Scan(sStr, "*[[]*]=*")
PRINT "Address: "; aScan[1]
PRINT "Temp: "; aScan[2]

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini