Extract either string1 or string2 from another string

I have a string of data named "dump" with 500 or more bytes of data that will contain within it either (along with other data) the word "circle" or the word "square". (but not both)
I need to pull which ever one of these two words that is in the string "dump" and to create a string called "type" that contains only that word.
Is there an easy way to do this with a line of code or two?
thanks

if (FindPattern (dump, 0, -1, "circle", 0, 0) >= 0)
strcpy (typem "circle");
else if (FindPattern (dump, 0, -1, "square", 0, 0) >= 0)
strcpy (type, "square");
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Extracting various bits of information from a string

Hi,
I am interested in extracting various pieces of information from strings (which were originally email bodies). For example email addresses (that are in the body of the email not the "from" field), phone numbers (which could have spaces between, international formats/conventions, ie not all numbers), profession (to match against a list I have), etc etc.
I am expecting that I would need to use Regex to find emails and phone numbers, and maybe tokenizing the string to match against my list of professions.
So I am more interested in some high level suggestions of how I should go about this.
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Thanks.
Re: function object; You tip about the function object sounds like a very good idea. I have been thinking about the best way to do this and this sounds like a good way to do it.
Re: Regex - I have not used Regex much but I am assuming it wont be hard to find or create Regex expressions to find phone numbers and email addresses. Although as you say, names could be hard. Although in this case I will just have to rely on locations in known templates.
Thanks again,
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Extracting string from another string

Hi,
I have a problem that I am having difficulty solving, if anyone has any bright ideas it would be a great help.
I have a description field in one of my tables and the description would read something like
my website can be found at www.mywebsite.com, and it is great
I want to be able to extract the web address from this sentance, so the result would be
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I can do this specific for one sentance but I can't find a way to do it for many different sentances.
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r u expecting this..?
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How can i extract using while the time from the string ?

First time how can i extract the time as string ?
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Is the region always going to be "eu" or are you going to have more than one region. Since you are reading a string DateTime from different timezone than the computer you are reading the data you have to convert to a different timezone.
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Extract x amount of words from a string

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I've performance troubles doing this task:
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How to extract from a string ?

Hello , I have this string and I need to extract 4 parts (in bold) from the string , my string is :
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Hi,
oais wrote:
Hello , I have this string and I need to extract 4 parts (in bold) from the string , my string is :
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Hi i have a problem getting to a float value within a string of characters..
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Edited by: badmash on Feb 18, 2009 5:50 PM
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badmash wrote:
Hi i have a problem getting to a float value within a string of characters..
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with the space included
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Not true.
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Extract words from a string

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