[Solved] LUA - need some help capturing part of a string

[Barlow 19]

Hey folks,

 

I have challenges capturing part of a string (i.e. via string.match and a regular expression). I have spent quite a few hours testing different regular expressions, but so far to no avail. It's probably a blind spot and so I thought, rather than spending more hours muddying on,  I'd come here to ask for some help as you may be more experienced fixing this?

 

My string is a URL: 

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The string value that I would need to capture is located in between /devices/ and /abilities/ (so the part that reads 

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 ) This is not a fixed length item. 

 

It would be great if you could take a look at this and offer some advise!

Many thanks in advance.

 

Cheers,

Barlow

Edited March 28, 2018 by Barlow

[A.Socha 133]

it is, use

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then after device to next "/" you will get always your string

 

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[Barlow 19]

Hi A. Thank you for coming to the rescue for me!

 

This works great. Two birds in one stone, as I can now assist a troubled user of one of my VD's that will benefit from this fix 

 

Cheers,

Barlow