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Re: How to economically(!) remove a range of unknown(!) characters from a string

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote on 05 Jan 2017 in 
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript:

>> you could try to learn by experiment and
>> reading the specs.
> 
> :-)   There is an end to my ability to absorb stuff.   And it looks like
> that RegExp simply isn't sticking to my wetware.  And believe me, I've
> tried.
> 
> I've got several programs that use it, including PHP. 

[in PHP a programme?]

> I can create
> expressions all I want, but quite often the result surprises me.

I will pretend you asked for help here:

I wrote:
> Set myRegExp = New RegExp
> myRegExp.Pattern = "^(.{" & RangeBegin & "}).{" & Range & "}"
> sText = myRegExp.replace(sText,"$1")
> response.write sText

Now:

"^(.{6}).{2}"

means:

^ start matching at the beginning of the string
. match any single character
.{6} match group of 6 of any single character
(.{6}) remember this group for pasting as $1
.{2} match group of 2 of any single character

.replace(sText,"$1")

will do:

replace the first 8 characters [the "match"]
with the first 6 remembered.

so if
sText = "12345678"
the returned string wil be:
"123478"

====================

"^(.{6}).{2}"

could also be written as:

"^(......).."

but then it would be [more] difficult 
to insert the numbers 6 and 2 dynamicly
as I did here:

"^(.{" & RangeBegin & "}).{" & Range & "}"

==============


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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