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Extracting numbers from a string

Dan
I have a number of strings that represents time.

1w 2d 3h 15m
2d 3h 15m
4h 30m
45m

I want to extract the number parts of my strings into separate
variables for Weeks, Days, Hours and Minutes.

Any body got any good ideas about how to do this?

Oct 4 '07
10 4079
Dan
On Oct 6, 6:32 am, "Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <notmyfirstn... @planet.nl>
wrote:
Dan,
I was hoping i could do it in one line with a regular expression
rather than creating a function that splits it and searches for
specific things.

Why you want a slow solution instead of a quick one?

Cor
Are you saying that regular expressions are slower than looping
through an array of strings?

Oct 11 '07 #11

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