Dear Sir,

How can I retrieve one text string from the web page?

for example the web page string is "test string http://www.winautomation.com.......".  I want to retrieve string between "www." and ".com"

1.'Parse Text' "www." -> save to %position1%

2.'Parse Text' ".com" -> save to %position2%

3.'Set Variable' %length% = %positon2% - %position1% + 4 (But the WinAutomaition always set %length% in Text Value. So I can't using the 'Get Subtext' to retreieve string)

Could you please to check this issue? Thanks for your help.

ps: WinAutomation version is 3.0.3.410

Best regards,

Kevin

You will have to use regular expressions in order to achieve this functionality, otherwise it gets very messy. The good thing is that you can easily create a regular expression that will grab text between 2 predefined portions of text. The basic syntax is:

(?<=TextBefore).*?(?=TextAfter)

So, in your case you will have to enter:

(?<=www\.).*?(?=\.com)

and check the "Use Regular Expressions" (or something similar) option of the "Parse Text" action.

If you want to know more about regular expressions, a very good website can be found here or you can check the dedicated forum thread here.

pctone: It looks to me like you are having the same problem I had when I first started using WinAutomation.  Step 3 should be: %length% = %position2 - position1 + 4% (note the percent signs around the entire expression) instead of how you wrote it.  If the result is an integer stored as a text variable (not sure why it would be), use the "Convert Text to Number" action.

Thanks Codex, that helped me :)

Chris