Get a special, signed part of a string

Asked Aug 05 '15 at 11:54

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I have a string like this:

blabla random-string-I-dont-need blabla
SPECIALSTRING
the-string-I-need
STRINGSPECIAL
blabla other-string-I-dont-need blabla
SPECIALSTRING
the-string-I-need
STRINGSPECIAL
//etc, I have a very long file with this 'pattern' repeated

What I need out of this string are the

SPECIALSTRING
the-string-I-need
STRINGSPECIAL

parts as many times it appears in the string - the-string-I-need is always different, but specialstring and stringspecial are always the same - and different from each other.

(Just note, that I can't count on new line characters, I just added them here to give you a better vision.)

edited Aug 05 '15 at 11:54

Uwe Keim

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asked Aug 05 '15 at 11:54

grp zeneszerzo

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[How to ask](http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) – Uwe Keim Aug 05 '15 at 11:55
What result you expect is it a plain `string` or `string[]` ? – Fabjan Aug 05 '15 at 11:56
I tried to find substrings, but got confused with take() and remove() methods. – grp zeneszerzo Aug 05 '15 at 11:58
@Fabjan I will write it to a file, so it doesn't matter (I guess?) – grp zeneszerzo Aug 05 '15 at 11:59
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this must be a duplicate – Jodrell Aug 05 '15 at 11:59
Will the specialstring allways be on its own line? Also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17252615/get-string-between-two-strings-in-a-string – William Moore Aug 05 '15 at 12:00
@WilliamMoore no, we don't know it for sure; we don't know anything about the string, only about the special strings indicating the string we need – grp zeneszerzo Aug 05 '15 at 12:01
@WilliamMoore and also is important, that I may have hundreds of these strings I need. so I guess I will need a while() somewhere..? – grp zeneszerzo Aug 05 '15 at 12:03

Get a special, signed part of a string

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