Extracting from strring

Help!

I hope someone can give me some hint on how to do this.

I have a variable

path = "C:\john\1999.01.01(Monday)\15h 35m 54s (Virtual Recorder)"

I need to isolate "Virtual Recorder" into a separate variable. Although Virtual Recorder could have been "LAVAC" or "BANANA". The key is the parentheses.

Thank you in advance

First find the last backslash, then look for the parens from that point.
strrchr can do this and, if path is a CString, it probably has some
members that can also.

If path is just a character buffer, once you have the last backslash
calling strtok with a delimiter string of "()" will do it. Remember
that strtok is destructive : it inserts nulls, so if you need to retain
the original string use strtok on a copy of it.

I don't want to just hand you the code because you would learn much
more by wrestling with this kind of string parsing yourself.

Given s is a CString = "C:\john\1999.01.01(Monday)\15h 35m 54s (Virtual Recorder)".

int nOpenParen(s.ReverseFind('('));

if (-1 != nOpenParen) {
int nCloseParen(s.Mid(nOpenParen).Find(')'));

if (-1 != nCloseParen) {
return s.Mid(nOpenParen + 1,
nCloseParen - nOpenParen);
}
}

I *think* the above is right... step through it and watch out for "off-by-one" errors, though.



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