Yes this was what i was looking for :)
With so many functions in xpath 2.0, I was just hoping
it was in there somewhere. oh well, I'll stick to your
approach.
Thanx again!
Arian
--- Jon Gorman <jonathan(_dot_)gorman(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Want to do something like this...
substring($titleText,
indexOf($titleText, ' findThisTextsIndex ')+5 ,
indexOf($titleText, 'toHere') )
An index of function would be nice, but it's not
clear it's needed.
Perhaps a description of your problem would be more
helpful then what
you are trying to do. In any case, I'll give it a
stab below.
Why not just do some combination of substring,
substring-before and
substring-after?
I'm going to create an entirely fictional example
I have some string of characters that contain two
indicators of a
special sequence of text, START and END. In
addition, there are
always five characters after START that are always
the same. (It may
be you're using the +5 to try to avoid the starting
characters, but
who knows since you didn't give us that
information.)
Example string: It was a dark and stormy night
START00123Needs a
little more punch, how about it was a very, very
dark and very, very
stormy nightEND which would be the night of a
most...
substring-after(TheString,"START")
gives us everything after START ie
00123Needs a little more punch, how about it was a
very, very dark and
very, very stormy nightEND which would be the night
of a most...
substring(substring-after(TheString,"START"),6)
gives us the string starting with the 6th character
after START
Needs a little more punch, how about it was a very,
very dark and
very, very stormy nightEND which would be the night
of a most...
substring-before(substring(substring-after(TheString,"START"),6),"END")
gives us the string starting with the 6th charcter
after START but before END
Needs a little more punch, how about it was a very,
very dark and
very, very stormy night
Is that something like what you're looking for?
Jon Gorman
ps. Feels like I'm abusing substring-after and
substring-before
lately and it's been a while since I've even used
them in my own code.
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