getting text inside of parenthesis

[Kevin]

i am trying to get the text in of () just not having any luck
i ned to do 2 things
#1 get the text inside ex str a="(the text i want)"
#2 if str is this str a= " some text(more text)"--remove this(more text)-- so there is only first part

[QM Assistant]

I'm somewhat confused by the explanation but you should be able to do it with from?


Macro ( Macro33 )

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str s="hello"
str ss.from(s)
out ss

No clue if this is what your wanting?

[Kevin]

ok some like this
str a="test text1 (test text2)"
in 1 case i want 2 get only text text2
in the other i only want 2 get text test 1

[QM Assistant]

Like this?


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lpstr s="Test Text 1 (Test Text 2)"
str q.left(s 11);;Grabs Test Text 1
str w.get(s 13 11);;Grabs Test Text 2

out q
out w

[Kevin]

now those are just samples the text will be different each time and unknown

[QM Assistant]

So did that help or are you still looking for help? Where is the text coming from? Is there going to be one set of text in parentheses and one regular?

[Kevin]

now those are just samples the text will be different each time and unknown meaing the nuber of charcters could be different each time basically i'm getting the text off a window and don't know exactly what the text will be or how many characters are in it till the function is run.also the text may have other characters such as -,:;*or () before the (test text2) that help you out any? the example u gave works fine for the example i gave but the problem is the number of characters and the text will be different everytime

[QM Assistant]

So your saying that there is going to be a random amount of text before the () and there will be a random amount of text inside of the ()? Will there be () inside the string? or are you just using that to seperate the 2 parts?

[Kevin]

yes
radom amount of text here (radom amount of Text here)
text could be like )*ihiry_rgfdg_rryte*) (testing_1234)

[Kevin]

Gin i tried using other functions was asking for help making a regular expression to accomplish the task but having trouble. i tried using trim,rtrim, ltrim but that doesn't seem to work