extracting substring from large text blob
| From: | Redmond Militante | Date: | Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:12:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | extracting substring from large text blob | ||
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hi
i have a large text blob that i want to extract strings out of.
the large text blob looks like "Name: john doe Date: 060604
Subject: this is subject Text: <long text blob>";
i want to just extract 'john doe' '060604' and 'this is subject'
from the text blob. what would be the best string function to use? for instance, can i use preg
match to extract the text between 'Name:' and 'Date:'? as these words would be
the delimiters...
thanks
redmond
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Redmond Militante
Software Engineer / Medill School of Journalism
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