A little Regex help

[thegrove]

I have some strings of this format which I want to split into parts as follows

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Split | some | text 2002 | but it does not work

into

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some
text 2002

i.e. discarding the "|" and "Split" and "but it does not work" parts.

I'm using this here:

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RegExMatch(MyStr, "\s\|\s(.*)\s\|\s", MyOut)
MsgBox, % MyOut

This is giving returning " | some | text 2002 | " rather than the first part I want. I realise I may need to do this in two passes (that's the second part of the question) to get the two parts but this is not behaving as I expect.

Thanks.

[mikeyww]

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str  = Split | some | text 2002 | but it does not work
arr := StrSplit(str, " | ")
SendInput % arr.2 "`n" arr.3

[thegrove]

Thank you, that's a neater solution.

How would I have done it with RegExMatch?

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
StrSplit is better!

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str  = Split | some | text 2002 | but it does not work
RegExMatch(str, "([^|]+)\|([^|]+)\|([^|]+)\|([^|]+)", arr)
SendInput % arr2 "`n" arr3

[mikeyww]

Here is another, though success depends on how variations of this format occur.

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str  = Split | some | text 2002 | but it does not work
RegExMatch(str, "\|(.+)\|", m)
SendInput % StrReplace(Trim(m1), " | ", "`n")