How extract part of filename and assign to string var

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Hello group.

I need to be able to do the following and wanted to know if anyone here can help me. I have a filename that I receive that comes in a format that looks like this:

FILExxxxx.cbkxxxx.pov

I need to be able to extract the cbkxxxx from the file and assign it to a string variable. I have to be able to somehow say “look at the filename string, look for cbk and take the value up to the .pov and assign it to a string variable”. How do you do that in developer? Currently, I have a substring set up, but it’s possible that the position of the cbkxxxx could be different.

Thanks.

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Use pub.string:tokenize. Use . as your delim. Your cbkxxx will be in the second position in the returned valueList.

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If the cbkxxxx section is always bracketed by periods one way to do this would be to tokenize (pub.string:tokenize) the file name using ‘.’ as the delimiter, then loop through the resulting string list checking for a value beginning with cbk.

Tim

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or u can loop over the value list and as u know u have the value u need in valuelist[1] i.e in second position …just use the iterator and when it is 1 just map the value to a string and use it …
HTH
sri

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If the part of the name will always be in the same place, just use an index to retrieve the desired entry from the array. No need to loop.

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yeah thats right …give value list as input to pub.list:getStringListItem and specify index value …u can strip off the value u want …
HTH
sri

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Hey,

Invocation of the service is also not needed. You may just map the string list to the string and give the index on tha map step

Rgds,
Pradeep

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yeah thats true …solution by pradeep is pretty simple