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Steve Swift wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
I have a string like A:BCD:EFG and I need to populate a variable with
^^^
'BCD'.

this works for me:

.*):

This will match also `::'.

If that's the data then "" is the answer.

Not destroying the context might have been wise in order to understand what
I was aiming at.


PointedEars
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

Steve Swift wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
I have a string like A:BCD:EFG and I need to populate a variable with
^^^
'BCD'.

this works for me:

.*):
This will match also `::'.
If that's the data then "" is the answer.

Not destroying the context might have been wise in order to understand what
I was aiming at.


PointedEars

You're in the wrong newsgroup. You should aim such comments at the
cause: Thunderbird.

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Steve Swift said the following on 12/15/2007 3:28 AM:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
Steve Swift wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
I have a string like A:BCD:EFG and I need to populate a variable with
^^^
'BCD'.

this works for me:

.*):
This will match also `::'.
If that's the data then "" is the answer.

Not destroying the context might have been wise in order to understand
what
I was aiming at.


PointedEars

You're in the wrong newsgroup. You should aim such comments at the
cause: Thunderbird.

Thunderbird didn't do that, whoever snipped it did. Thunderbird quotes
the entire message and the only way to "destroy the context" is if the
user snips it.

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Steve Swift wrote:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
Steve Swift wrote:
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
I have a string like A:BCD:EFG and I need to populate a variable with
^^^
'BCD'.

this works for me:

.*):
This will match also `::'.
If that's the data then "" is the answer.
Not destroying the context might have been wise in order to understand what
I was aiming at.
[...]

You're in the wrong newsgroup. You should aim such comments at the
cause: Thunderbird.

I use exactly the same version of Thunderbird like you do and therefore I
know that is an outright lie^W winding around *your* failing. You should
be ashamed for attributing it to the software.

Please trim your quotes while retaining the context.


F'up2 poster

PointedEars
--
"Use any version of Microsoft Frontpage to create your site. (This won't
prevent people from viewing your source, but no one will want to steal it.)"
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