Is there a way to Parse an email string?

[bigzilla]

I there a way to parse (break out) the name of the image from the rest of the information?

 

In the following example I would like to be able to have a field that would break out and show the “Mtn_Image.jpg” portion of the information and it would have to work on both Mac’s and Pc’s. Is that possible?

 

Hard Drive:Users:Bill:Desktop:3-31-05 eailer:HTML Folder:Mtn_Image.jpg

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Bill

[Robert Schaub]

Here's a script from one of JMO's FP3 Files

 

See Attached

[Maarten Witberg]

This could be simple if your filenames are always of the form

AAA_BBB.ext

 

then rightwords(pathname;3) will do.

 

 

But otherwise you'll have to take the string to the right of the last separator. And the catch is, path separators in windows are "/" aren't they? whereas in mac it's ":". so you'd have to check for the platform... Now Get(systemplatform) generates "-1" on my mac. I cannot test what the result is on windows, so here's a stab...

 

Code:

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Let ( Separator = Case(Get ( SysteemPlatform) ="-1";":";"/");
Right ( PathName ; Length(PathName)- Position ( PathName ; Separator; 1 ; PatternCount ( PathName ; Separator) )))

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kjoe

 

PS I just learned from the help viewer that Get(systemplatform) will generate -2 on Win2000 or XP. So the test is probably OK.

What I'm not clear on is what happens when you're on a mac linked to a win server, or the other way round. Get(systemplatform) will always give the result of the client machine, but what if the pathname is on the host?

[bigzilla]

Hi guys,

 

Kjoe your parsing works great on a Mac, I'll try it on a Pc later.

 

Thanks for your help,

 

Bill