Thread: Setting markers in strings??

First of all, if it's supposed to get the text between the first occurrence of the first marker and the first occurrence of the second marker, inclusive, then in your example,

hello to everyone

the output would actually be "o to every". Is this correct?

In that case, just find the first occurrence of the first marker, the first occurrence of the second marker, and then use the substring function with the appropriate indices. Some pseudocode...

FindMarked(source: string, marker1: character, marker2: character)
1. index1 := FindFirst(source, marker1)
2. index2 := FindFirst(source, marker2)
3. return source[index1...index2]
 
FindFirst(source: string, marker: character)
1. for i := 1 to len(source)
2.    do if source[i] = marker then return i
3. return 0

Hi there,

Thanks for taking time to give me some advice.

Yes you are right about what should be outputted!! Thanks

You have helped me loads with this. I owe you one!!

Thanks for your time & advice

- John