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[debstai]

I am trying to use the RegExMatch to separate a string from a .tmp file that gets created.

Example of .tmp file

12345 John Jay Stadium UNITED STATES

I want 3 different results when it is all said and done. The United States portion was a new value added to the .tmp directory

My current RegExMatch is as follows:

position := RegExMatch(A_LoopField,"\s*(\d+)\s((\w*\s*)*)" ,result)

What I want to see is:
number=12345
name=John Jay Stadium
country=UNITED STATES

What do I need to add or change to my current RegExMatch to get UNITED STATES as a separate value.

Note: number, name and country will be different each time because it picks up the new info from each laptop. country will always be in uppercase.

Thank you

[fade2gray]

If you could separate the number, name and country elements with an infrequently used character rather than a space i.e. using a "¦" broken bar to produce "12345¦John Jay Stadium¦UNITED STATES", the following might work for you:-

[Lexikos]

Use the un-greedy (?) modifier and an end-of-string anchor ($).

[Guest]

hi fade2gray,

thank you for your post, but unfortunately there is no way to display the | in the .tmp file because it is being pulled from a SQL window. there is actually a lot of space between name and country when it appears in the .tmp file.


hi lexikos,

thank you for your post.

i tried your code and it almost works. what it does is it displays it as such:

number=12345
name=John Jay Stadium United States
country=

with a lot of space between John Jay Stadium and United States.
for some reason it just does not want to separate. any ideas?

[debstai]

Nevermind user error...thanks lexicos that worked! I forgot the ? after the second string. you guys are good.