How To Filter Out Some Text?

[burt]

I want to use a portion from a text string to use. The text begins at the clipboard.

 

Example

 

Raw text on clipboard:

Message-ID: <cvhgf6$us6$1@sport.gtinternet.org> Subject: Accuracy with January report Author: "Stony" <stony@openworld.org> Date: Tue, Feb 22 09:27

 

The result has to be:

Accuracy with January report

 

 

So this is what should be deleted at the leftside:

Message-ID: <cvhgf6$us6$1@sport.gtinternet.org> Subject:

 

and this on the rghtside:

<TAB>Author: "Stony" <stony@openworld.org> Date: Tue, Feb 22 09:27

 

The text string doesn't always start with Message-ID: but it is also not random. A few other known words are possible.

 

 

Notice the using of tabs which are used at the leftside from Subject:, Author: and Date:

 

What's always the same is the word Subject: It will be always there.

Also the word Author: is what all these text strings will have in common.

 

Can this be done in Macro Express?

[cyberchief]

Welcome Burt,

 

Below is code that will do just as you wish. It finds "Subject:" and "Author" and will copy the text found in between these two fields into varialbe %T1%.

 

Clipboard Copy
Variable Set String %T1% from Clipboard
Variable Set Integer %N1% from Position of Text in Variable %T1%
Variable Set Integer %N2% from Position of Text in Variable %T1%
Variable Modify Integer: %N1% = %N1% + 9
Variable Modify Integer: %N3% = %N2% - %N1%
Variable Modify String: Copy Part of %T1% to %T1%
Text Box Display: Result

 

<CLIPC><TVAR2:01:03:><IVAR2:01:13:1:Subject: ><IVAR2:02:13:1:Author><NMVAR:01:01:1:0000001:2:0000009><NMVAR:02:03:1:0000002:1:0000001><TMVAR2:10:01:01:N01:N03:><TBOX4:T:1:CenterCenter000278000200:000:Result%T1%>

[burt]

Thanks Cyberchief!

 

A working solution within 15 minutes

It workes fine.

 

I had a dummy solution with using of notepad and the search and replace option, but I thought there should be a more intelligent way without the need of external programs.

 

I will study your code and see if I can manage to get the author info extracted myself.

And sometimes there will be more lines on the clipboard from which I only use the first line to determine the subject.

 

 

Thanks again!

 

Bye, Burt