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Newbie Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Posts: 2

I have text coming in that looks like: 008ABCDEFGH

The first 3 characters (008) tell how many characters are left in the line.

Originally, I tried to use (&03)(%*) as the pattern. The problem with that is that the line doesn't necessarily end there. The line doesn't have a CRLF at the end.

For example: 008ABCDEFGH003ABC

I want to make a pattern like (&03)(&%1). The idea is I want to put the number from the first parameter into the second paramater and read that many digits. But the syntax above doesn't work.

Any ideas?

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

If you are getting (pattern)(pattern)..

Then the way that I've found that works the
best is to grab the entire line then parse
it out.

Off the top of my head here is something
which you might consider:




Trigger: ^(%*)$


  ie 008ABCDEFGH003ABC..


  When should this trigger be on?  Always


  or just when you are to receive such


  sequences..


Script:


  #VAR ToParse %1


  #WHILE (@ToParse( <> "") {


    #NOOP Is that while statement correct?


    #NOOP will the copy make it go to ""?


    #VAR SequenceSize %copy(@ToParse,1,3)


    #VAR Sequence %copy(@ToParse,3,@SequenceSize)


    #VAR Parsed %additem(@Sequence)


    #VAR ToParse %copy(@ToParse,[3+@SequenceSize],%len(@ToParse))


  }

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