Wildcard or place holder for Positon

[kpassaur]

Is there any wildcard or place holder that can be used with the Position> command. I cannot find anything in the help or on the forum. The goal is to be able to use something similar to this

*.*.*.*

Which would find the start positon of of anything that has three periods in the line such as an ip address. I realize that in this case I could use the position command and send it three times to varify a line and then count the characters but this seems in flexible.

I say this as what if a user wants to change it they have to change all of the code as opposed to just changing a wildcard string.

If not a wildcard a place holder such as "?"

this??. would search for a string that has "this" two characters and then a period.

Is there any way to do this with out searching for "this" when the positon is found adding 6 characters and checking for a period.

[Me_again]

Probably doesn't help much but you could do something like use regex to find the actual text matching the pattern, and then use pos to locate it.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Sounds like what you are asking for is indeed Regular Expressions.

[Bob Hansen]

Macro Scheduler supports the VBScript RegExp Object.

See VBScript help for RegExp here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx