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I am trying to write a script which would parse the id from the following snippet:

<form  method="post" action="/gp/checkout/address/edit.html/ref=ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1" id="edit-joqkltnomp">
     
and insert it where ID is in the following snippet:

        Set FormElement = GWFO(iedoc, "getElementByid", VbMethod, 30, ID)
       FormElement.submit
the id in the first snippet is always a variable so I searched for the part of the snippet immediately before it which is a constant as follows:

(Body.innerHTML, "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1")

I am thinking if i create a string called IDString, for example, I can run the latter snippet as

      Set FormElement = GWFO(iedoc, "getElementByid", VbMethod, 30, IDString)
       FormElement.submit

I am just having a hard time figuring out how to parse the id and creating the string. Help much appreciated.
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Try something like this:
Dim IDString As String
Dim values As Variant
values = Split(Body.InnerHTML, "id=" & Chr(34))
If UBound(values) >= 1 Then
    values = Split(values(1), Chr(34))
    If UBound(values) >= 1 Then
        IDString = values(0)
        ' ...
        Set FormElement = GWFO(iedoc, "getElementByid", VbMethod, 30, IDString)
        FormElement.submit
    Else
        ' closing " was not found
    End If
Else
    ' id=" was not found
End If

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I think you are close Idle but there is more than one "id=" in the HTML and it is picking up one of th eother ones. that is why I wanted to find the "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1" as that is unique. If I can find that first the "id=" after that will always be the id I am looking for.
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not working either. it looks likes its not finding "id=" as

values = Split(values(1), "id=" & Chr(34))
    If UBound(values) >= 1 Then
   
turns up ubound(values) = 0

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From what I can tell you are trying to split the html from after the "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1"), then find the "id=" and parse the 34 characters after it; is that right? I did a

debug.print '|" & Body.innerHTML & '|"

and it looks like it is only splitting the last few paragraphs of the HTML (which is actually several pages long, with the "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1" we are looking for probably in the top quarter of the code)
there is an 'id=" in that last paragraph and it is pulling the script from after that, which in turn is not the right script. Is there a way to just parse the "id=" immediately after the "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1"  without doing the split as it seems the split is where the problem is...
why not use the XML DOM to get the data you want, rather than do string parsing?
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???
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Idle, it was very close but after playing with it this is what came to work:

      Set Body = GWFO(iedoc, "getElementsByTagName", VbMethod, 30, "BODY")(0)
            Debug.Print "|" & Body.innerHTML & "|"
            If InStr(Body.innerHTML, "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1") Then
            values = Split(Body.innerHTML, "ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1")
                Debug.Print "|" & UBound(values) & "|"
                If UBound(values) >= 1 Then
                values = Split(values(1), "id=" & Chr(34))
                    If UBound(values) < 1 Then
                    values = Split(values(0), Chr(34))
                        If UBound(values) >= 1 Then
                        IDString = values(0)
                        IDString = Mid(IDString, 15, 10)
                        IDString = "edit-" & IDString
                        ' ...
                        Set FormElement = GWFO(iedoc, "getElementByid", VbMethod, 30, IDString)
                        FormElement.submit
                        Else
                        ' closing " was not found
                        End If
                    Else
                    ' id=" was not found
                    End If
                Else
                ' ox_shipaddress_edit_addr_1 was not found
                End If
            End If