Help With Extracting Text

fightcancer · Post by **fightcancer** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:30 am

I'm having a hard time getting the Level stored in my var "strText" which is captured using the GetTextInRect command. The actual value stored in strText is displayed below. I copied this excerpt from the log file of the macro after doing a var dump.

(I'm requesting help getting the value 83 from the string called strText.)

10/13/2008 00:06:52:277 - STRTEXT= Fightcancer, Level
83

10/13/2008 00:06:52:277 - KSRTGETTEXTINRECT=1

I included the line after the line in question merely to demonstrate that the value of strText includes multiple line breaks and spaces. The problem is I don't know how many lines or spaces the captured text will include when I capture it. Also, the level can be 1, 2 or 3 digits.

Thanks!

fightcancer · Post by **fightcancer** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 7:41 am

Nm. I just found the "System Variables" and should be able to test each character in strText after "Level" to see if it's a space, tab, LF, CR, etc. The remaining characters should be my level.

EDIT: Got it to work.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:48 pm

Rather than testing each character,, here are a few other approaches.

1. You could use Position to find level, then use MidString to capture the level value and remove leading spaces.

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Let>test=10/13/2008 00:06:52:277 - STRTEXT= Fightcancer, Level  83 
Position>Level,%test%,1,Start
Let>Begin=%Start%+5
MidStr>%test%,%Begin%,20,Value
StringReplace>%Value%,%space%,,Value
MessageModal>The value is %Value%

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2. If the value will always be two digits, then this would work:

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Let>test=10/13/2008 00:06:52:277 - STRTEXT= Fightcancer, Level  83 
Length>%test%,strLength
Let>Begin=%strLength%-2
MidStr>%test%,%Begin%,2,Value
MessageModal>The level is %Value%

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fightcancer · Post by **fightcancer** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:45 pm

Bob Hansen wrote:1. You could use Position to find level, then use MidString to capture the level value and remove leading spaces.

I like this approach a lot. I wish I had known about StringReplace earlier. Even though I would've had to use multiple StringReplace commands, it would've been easier than testing each character. (The strText frequently had at least one LF/CR/CRLF.)

thanks!