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[raider2k]

hi ^^

to explain what i like to do:

i catch a line with my bot which comes from a news system but only want to retrieve the news posters nickname - problem is that the news posters nickname sometimes consists of one or two names, in example:

"news added: sony increased sale rates on playstation 3 poster: derrick date: 2009-01-01" <-- one name which i can easily catch with lindex
and
"news added: sony increased sale rates on playstation 3 poster: dick tracy date: 2009-01-01" <-- two names

is there a way to easily retrieve only the posters complete nick?
or is there a way to string match from a special char to a special char?

hope my explanation isnt that bad

[arfer]

You could use a regexp to get everything between "poster: " and " date:" using something sililar to the following tclsh examples :-

% set data "news added: sony increased sale rates on playstation 3 poster: dick tracy date: 2009-01-01"
news added: sony increased sale rates on playstation 3 poster: dick tracy date: 2009-01-01
% regexp {poster: (.+?) date:} $data -> nick
1
% return $nick
dick tracy

[raider2k]

geesh!
that worked

thanks very much for your help