Trimming a string using spaces as a delimitter

I'm trying to retreive email addresses from individual message bodies. I'm using the following code and it is working well :
<cfset addrpos = ListContainsNoCase(getmail.body, "@", " <> ")>
     <cfif addrpos neq 0>
     <cfset email = ListGetAt(getmail.body, addrpos, " <> ")>
     </cfif>
For the most part this is working well, but at times the <> characters are not surrounding the email address in the message bodyand I'm ending up with the email address and a combination of the word before, word after or both. Is there a better way to handle this situation? I tried the following which works when I set the email variable in the example, but does not work when I use the same code in the loop that is getting the original email variable.
<cfset email = "adfga: [email protected] adfw asdfa">
<cfset addrpos1 = ListContainsNoCase(email, "@", " ")>
<cfset EMAIL = ListGetAt(email, addrpos1, " ")>
I looked at the GetToken function but did not think that it would be a better way to go at it. Any other ideas?

Finding email addresses in a bunch of text without using regular expressions? Mad, I say, Mad!
Hints:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7e 9a.html
Try using regular expression to match any valid email:
[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}
Allow returnsubexpressions on ReFind to return multiple hits on the message body.
Use cfdump to check how you must access the result array.
Hope this helps.
- Fernis - fernis.net - ColdFusion Developer For Hire

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Use REGEXP_INSTR to find a text string with space(s) in it

I am trying to use REGEXP_INSTR to find a text string with space(s) in it.
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Let's say ParmIn_Look_For has a value of 'black dog'. I want to see if
ParmIn_Search_This_String has 'black dog' anywhere in it. But it gives an error
Syntax error on command line.
If ParmIn_Look_For is just 'black' or 'dog' it works fine.
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look for 'black dog' ??
Also: If I want to use the option of ignoring white space, is the last parm
'ix' 'i,x' or what ?
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INTO Position_Found_In_String
FROM DUAL;
Thanks, Wayne

Maybe something like this ?
test@ORA10G>
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3    select 2, 'this sentence does not' from dual union all
4    select 3, 'yet another dog that is black' from dual union all
5    select 4, 'yet another black dog' from dual union all
6    select 5, 'black dogs everywhere...' from dual union all
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8    select 7, 'i saw a black dog' from dual)
9 --
10 select num, str
11 from t
12 where regexp_like(str,'black dog');
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         5 black dogs everywhere...
         6 black dog running after me...
         7 i saw a black dog
5 rows selected.
test@ORA10G>
test@ORA10G>pratz
Also, 'x' ignores whitespace characters. Link to doc:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/conditions007.htm#i1048942
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pratz

Scan From String White Space

i all,
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What I want: s[00 .. 30] d[12], d[34], d[56] leftover s[37 38 39 ... FF]
ATTEMPT1
Format String: %49s%2d%2d%2d
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I'm aware I can parse my string using subsets and whatnot... but Scan From String is so elegant. It would be great if %S allowed for white space... or if $##[^] would simply take the first ## characters and allow me to Format after that.
Is there a simple, elegant way to do this? I wish my dataset was only 3-4 outputs. It'd be ideal if I could. Thanks.
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It might be more helpful if I provide a less abstract example:
I have an ASCII Header (Finite Length String), a Sender IP (Finite Length String), a Timestamp, a Message ID (Finite Length Decimal), A Message in ASCII ( '1' actually means 0x31, not 0x01) And for some ungodly reason... no delimiters.
So I was HOPING %##s%##s%<%H:%M:%s>t%##d (With leftover string to be my message) would work, but if any white space is contained within there... it messes up.

I cannot provide exact strings because the string is actually ASCII characters, most of which aren't displayable.
I have a string where I have:
24 ASCII Characters representing 6x U32 Header Data
13 ASCII characters represening the sender IP (string)
12 ASCII Characters representing the name of the message (String)
12 ASCII Characters representing 3x U32 Data
12 ASCII Characters represneting the name of packet (String)
12 ASCII Characters representing 12x U8 Data
256 ASCII Characters represening 256x U8 Data
etc...
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Translate string using hex(0020) in Unicode system.

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Here BULOG is a structure and ws_string1 is declared as follows:
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On compilation in the new system which is Unicode enabled, the above mentioned statement removes all the '#' placed in the structure.
We tried the following statement instead of the original TRANSLATE statement.
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We have already REPLACE statement after converting the structure contents into a string.
We have also tried the convert methods of the classes CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE and CL_ABAP_CONV_OUT_CE.
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Addition 2
... USING pattern
Effect
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pattern must be a character-type data object whose contents are interpreted as a sequence of
character pairs.
Your option 1 is not working because type X is "Byte field", technically it's not a character-type. Your option 2 is not working because <pattern> must be a sequence of character pairs (you had just SPACE).
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How to pad a string with space or other character

length 14 string '00000000000155' turn to length 25 string '00000000000155         ' ,use space to pad string trail.
using following function:
CONCATENATE '00000000000155' '         ' into lv_string
but result is the lv_string ='00000000000155',the spaces were not added the string trail.
how to achieve this purpose padding string.
pls help me.
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Hi ,
Not sure what exactly you require, But in my understanding you need to add one more spave after the doknr no. Please refer this code which could be more useful.
data: lv_objkt like aeoi-OBJKT,
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      lv_dokar like draw-dokar,
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      lv_dokvr like draw-dokvr,
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lv_doktl = '000'.
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Is it possible to search for strings containing spaces and special characters?

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When I search for "Figure 3" I get all pages containing "Figure" and "3", even if I surround it in quotes. Similarly, searching for "3-2" treats the '-' character as a space and searches for all pages containing '3' or '2'.
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In that case I think the answer is no if you are using the standard search engine. However I believe that Zoom Search does allow this type of searching. Check out this link for further information.
http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/zoomsearch/zoomsearch.htm
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Oracle Text Index - Trailing Search when the String has spaces

Hi Am trying to use CONTAINS to tune a trailing LIKE search. But it's not working when the string has spaces in between them
For e.g in say if table person has column name which has following values
JOHN
FRED JOHNSON
JOHN ROBERTS
select * from person where name like 'JOHN%'
Above query will give JOHN and JOHN ROBERTS. If i use CONTAINS As below
select * from person where CONTAINS(name,'JOHN%',1) > 0
It brings back all three records. If i remove spaces in column itself, its working bit if i try to remove spaces in Query, i am getting a Text error as i have Text index only on the name column. I would like to know is it possible to use CONTAINS but get same result set on trailing search as how a normal LIKE will do.
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You could use some method, like a multi_column_datastore or user_datastore to append some specific starting characters, then include those in your search, as shown below.
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2    (name VARCHAR2(60))
3 /
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2 INTO person VALUES ('JOHN')
3 INTO person VALUES ('FRED JOHNSON')
4 INTO person VALUES ('JOHN ROBERTS')
5 SELECT * FROM DUAL
6 /
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SCOTT@orcl12c> BEGIN
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4 END;
5 /
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2 indextype is ctxsys.context
3 parameters('DATASTORE test_ds')
4 /
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Subject: extract the string before space

I have a string say "aquarium a". i want to extract the string appearing before the space and discard the string appearing after space.
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> i want to check if a string has space in between then
only this code should run otherwise this code should
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Wow, I completely botched that... uncle_alice, thank you for clearing that up for me.
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Padding a string with spaces

How do you pad a string w spaces using "Format into a string" w/o typing /s/s/s/s/s for say 5 spaces ?
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Hi Clint,
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There's this as well:
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