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Hi - I have a variable headline that is pulled from a txt file dumped from a website. Here's an example headline: After Hours: Retail shares rise on quarterly results - Carolyn Pritchard What I want to do is get rid of of the name that follows the headline (Carolyn Pritchard in this example but it's different for each story). So bascially, everything after the - I've tried various $left $right combinations etc but because the number of characters in the name is always different, it dosn't work. If anyone could help on this I'd appreciate it! Thanks 
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$gettok(After Hours: Retail shares rise on quarterly results - Carolyn Pritchard,-1,45)
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thanks - but the headline and the name are different each time...
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Yes, and it will work each time (assuming they always have the name after the last -), just replace the first parameter with the variable you have the headline in.
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great - thats working very well now - thank you very much!
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oops one more thing - is there a way for recognise the - only if it has a space after it? the reason being it's cutting off some headlines that have a - in words, like this one:
Schering-Plough warns, cuts dividend - Jeffry Bartash
thanks again...
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$gettok(Schering-Plough warns $+ $chr(44) cuts dividend - Jeffry Bartash,-1,45) returns Jeffry Bartash, what's wrong with that?
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sorry it was only returning Schering because of the - between Schering-Plough
my line of script is this so far:
msg #NewsRoom 0,7ยป $mid($gettok(%mw,1,45),17)
so would there be a way for it to still include the - if there's no spaces either side and just cut it off if there is a space on each side like before the name at the end?
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It's meant to be -1 for the second parameter, not just 1. No idea what the $mid is for.
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the $mid is to get rid of a date & time that's before the headline
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and -1 only seems to return the last 2 letters of the persons name at the end so I tried 1 and it was correct
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Well it works fine here..type this:
/set %test Schering-Plough warns, cuts dividend - Jeffry Bartash
//echo -a $gettok(%test,-1,45)
If you get "Jeffry Bartash" then it is a problem with something else.
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yes I'm getting Jeffry Bartash - will have a look to see where the problem is...
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/getName {
var %str = $$1-, %tok = $findtok(%str, -, $findtok(%str, -, 0, 32), 32) + 1
return $gettok(%str, $+(%tok,-), 32)
}
Examples:
/getName {
var %str = $$1-, %tok = $findtok(%str, -, $findtok(%str, -, 0, 32), 32) + 1
return $gettok(%str, $+(%tok,-), 32)
}
/ex {
var %str = This is some topic - Some name
[color:Red]/echo -a %str[/color]
[color:blue]/echo -a $getName(%str)[/color]
var %str = This is some topic - Some hyphened-name
[color:Red]/echo -a %str[/color]
[color:blue]/echo -a $getName(%str)[/color]
var %str = This is some hyphened-topic - Some name
[color:Red]/echo -a %str[/color]
[color:blue]/echo -a $getName(%str)[/color]
var %str = This is some hyphened-topic - Some hyphened-name
[color:Red]/echo -a %str[/color]
[color:blue]/echo -a $getName(%str)[/color]
var %str = This is some - hyphened and spaced topic - Some name
[color:Red]/echo -a %str[/color]
[color:blue]/echo -a $getName(%str)[/color]
}
Returns: This is some topic - Some nameSome nameThis is some topic - Some hyphened-nameSome hyphened-nameThis is some hyphened-topic - Some nameSome nameThis is some hyphened-topic - Some hyphened-nameSome hyphened-nameThis is some - hyphened and spaced topic - Some nameSome name EDIT: Color Coded
Last edited by KingTomato; 22/08/03 04:12 AM.
-KingTomato
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thanks alot KT - will venture into giving that a try! 
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