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[awcrt9316]

say if I want to get the second and third word in a string
this will acomplish that

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line := "first second third fourth fifth"
    RegExMatch(Line, "^(?:.*?\K\b\S+\b){2}", word1)    ; gets second word
    RegExMatch(Line, "^(?:.*?\K\b\S+\b){3}", word2)    ; gets third word
    MsgBox, % word :=  word1 " "word2

is there any way to shorten this regex stuff so it is just one line of code that extracts both words instead of writing it like this?

[flyingDman]

w/o regex:

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line := "first second third fourth fifth"
msgbox % strsplit(line," ").2 " " strsplit(line," ").3

[awcrt9316]

the only problem with this for me is there is a random amount of spaces between each word, so that wouldn't work. thats why i was using regex

[teadrinker]

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line := "first second third fourth fifth"
RegExMatch(line, "(\S+)\s+(\S+)", m)
MsgBox, % m1 "`n" m2

[boiler]

Slight mod to the above to get the requested second and third words.

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line := "first second third fourth fifth"
RegExMatch(line, "\S+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)", m)
MsgBox, % m1 "`n" m2

[teadrinker]

Ah, yes.

[flyingDman]

Or,

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line := "first       second      third          fourth fifth"
msgbox % regexreplace(line, "\S+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+).*", "$1 $2")

[sofista]

the only problem with this for me is there is a random amount of spaces between each word, so that wouldn't work. thats why i was using regex

Try this instead:

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line := "first       second      third          fourth fifth"
while InStr(line, "  ")
	line := StrReplace(line, "  ", " ")
MsgBox % strsplit(line," ").2 " " strsplit(line," ").3

[awcrt9316]

the only problem with this for me is there is a random amount of spaces between each word, so that wouldn't work. thats why i was using regex

Try this instead:

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line := "first       second      third          fourth fifth"
while InStr(line, "  ")
	line := StrReplace(line, "  ", " ")
MsgBox % strsplit(line," ").2 " " strsplit(line," ").3

almost works, but i needed to implement autotrim

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line := "    	asdfasdf        éeconé     third          fourth fifth  "
line = %line% ; forces line to be autotrimmed (no whitespace at beginning or end)
while InStr(line, "  ")
	line := StrReplace(line, "  ", " ")
msgbox, % line
MsgBox % strsplit(line," ").2