KummaZ

I need help searching a string. I have a line at the top of the text file that I read into a string. I need to see if this line has two #'s at the front and if so to place whatever is after that and before the next 2 #'s. Thanks to anyone who can help me.

ashish908

To to get the position of the first occurence of "##" in the string str1
pos1 = Instr(str1,"##")

To get the position of the second occurence of "##" in the string str1 use-
pos2 = Instr(pos1,str1,"##")

Then you can extract the characters between pos1 and pos2 which will constitute the desired string

KummaZ

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Originally Posted by ashish908
To to get the position of the first occurence of "##" in the string str1
pos1 = Instr(str1,"##")

To get the position of the second occurence of "##" in the string str1 use-
pos2 = Instr(pos1,str1,"##")

Then you can extract the characters between pos1 and pos2 which will constitute the desired string

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thanks for that but how would I be able to extract that information from the string? could you please give me an example. thanks for your help.

J0n

Once you have the position of the starting and ending ##'s (pos1 and pos2) you could use something like:
To extract the information between the first ## and the second ##.
Also, you might need to change:

ashish908

Thanks J0n in looking at the fine details