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i want to do something that is, essentially, RegExMatchAll

i have strings of text that go something like:

text text 123-456-789 text text 123-456-789 text text 123-456-789 text

i want to extract all the number sequences.

the description of RegExMatch makes me think i can do it with something like:



...which would put all the results in outvar1, outvar2....


but it doesn't work. i get the first one, but not any others.

what am i doing wrong?

jack

i think this was answered recently, but I can't find it - it may be in this thread:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic13545.html

I seem to remember a looping having to be done.

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Here's an alternate suggestion, using two RegExReplace commands

The result wll be all the ###-###-### paterns seperated by |s. So you can either use Loop Parse or StringSplit after that. The second RegExReplace just gets rid of the trailing | and any left over text after it.

that's a neat idea. i'll give it a go.

thanks

jack