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Extracting numbers from a string

I'm trying to extract some numbers from a char buffer formatted something like:

"\r\nSome Text A.B.C\r\nSome other Text D.E.F\r\n"

where a.b.c is the first number and d.e.f is the next number. I need to get them to be formatted simply "abc" and "def".

Axter

Are the numbers always going to be before the return-nextline charactor pair?

If so, you can do a charactor search for for the '\r' charactor, and the do a reverse search for the '.' period in order to get the number position.

For more information, please post your existing code.

hrasheed

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yes, this will always be the format of the returned information. the existing code isn't really related to formatting this data...i havent begun coding a way to parse these numbers because i wasnt exactly sure what method to use. the information is written to a char somebuffer[BufferSize]. i'm trying cast the numbers in ulong type for comparison to data read from a parameter file.

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Axter

You've only awarded 35 points for this question.

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hrasheed

Once you extracted the numbers from the string. use the atol function to convert them to integers.