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I need some help with formatting this string.

Input: asfbsdfsd<time> June 12, 2003</time>blah blah

I need to filter out everything outside the tags. so the output would be.

output:June 12, 2003

can someone help me write a function?
thanks in advance

Aaron
Nov 20 '05 #1
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Cor
Aaron,
I do not know if you mean this or another solution.
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Dim a As String = "Input: asfbsdfsd<time> June 12, 2003</time>blah blah"
Dim result As String = a.Substring(a.I ndexOf("<time>" ) + 6,
(a.IndexOf("</time>") - a.IndexOf("<tim e>") - 6))
////////////
Cor
Nov 20 '05 #2
Hello,

"Aaron" <ku*****@yahoo. com> schrieb:
Input: asfbsdfsd<time> June 12, 2003</time>blah blah

I need to filter out everything outside the tags. so the output would be.

output:June 12, 2003


Check the regular expressions chapter of the documentation.

Regards,
Herfried K. Wagner
--
MVP · VB Classic, VB .NET
http://www.mvps.org/dotnet
Nov 20 '05 #3

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