Re: New to scripting, need a lil help

Yes, it's possible with regexp.

It is also possible, using the plain 'ole split function
-- and maybe a little more transparent.

cheers, jw
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drk360@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Im an intern at a software company, and I think I'm way over my head.
I need a script that can read and parse a text file (easy part, that I
know)
but I need my script to extract text between two delimiters that i can
specify.

is it possible to do this with regular expressions?

thanks in advance

.

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