Question

I’m trying to create a function that will take a string which could be over multiple lines, e.g.:

'declare notThese declare orThis  hello = $notThis@butthis$ butNot= $ButNotThis$  andDefNot = getDate()' 

And search through it, pulling out {string1}‘s from all parts like

${whatever}@{string1}$ 

and then pushing them into an array.

How would I archive this? Would it be through regex or is it simpler than that?

Also would it make a difference if the string renders on multiple lines like above?

Answer 1

You can do it through regex. Multi-line or not does not play a role in this case.

Function ExtractStrings(input)   Dim re, matches, match, i, output    Set re = new RegExp   re.Pattern = '\$[^@]+@([^$]+)\$'   re.Global = True    Set matches = re.Execute(input)    ReDim output(matches.Count - 1)    i = 0   For Each match in matches       output(i) = match.SubMatches(0)     i = i + 1   Next    ExtractStrings = output End Function