the point is, ure asking how to compose a song, when u dont yet know how to pluck the strings(no pun intended lol). a musician's gotta practice
many ways to skin a cat. heres one using regex, good luck
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; are there videos at all? if so, where, at which character?
if (pos := RegExMatch(JSONString, """videos"":\[\{"))
; matches the literal string "videos":[{ note the need for both AHK and PCRE character escaping
{
; AHK's RegExMatch can only match ONCE, then it stops. because of that we need to use a loop
while pos := RegExMatch(JSONString, """title"":""(?P<Title>.*?)"",""url"":""(?P<URL>[^""]+)""", Match, pos)
; matches the pattern "title":"whatever-the-title-is","url":"whatever-the-url-is"
; u aint learning the whole of regex from a comment, so why bother explaining...
{
MsgBox % "overall match: " Match "`ntitle: " MatchTitle "`nURL: " MatchURL
; advance forward as many chars as there are in whatever had been matched
; to skip past it and continue searching for more strings
pos += StrLen(Match)
}
}
