Automatically Strip fields/data out of text?

[Tikka308]

Is there a way (or a program) where I could copy text from an email
(see example below) and, every time, strip out certain fields? e.g.
take the text below and strip out the fields for First, Last, &
Address?

Thanks.

Customer ID : 89
First Name : John
Last Name : Doe
Company :
Address : 123 Main Street
City : New York
State/Province : NY
Zip/Postal Code : 10001
Country :
Phone : 123456789
Fax :
E-Mail : joh...@gmail.com

[Sam Tarakajian]

https://github.com/petewarden/dstk

Maybe?

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[Darcy Whyte]

should be easy, what language or environment are you working with?

[Dan Lavin]

awk was made for this sort of thing.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

[AtomSoft]

If you are using C# Express (free) you can simply read a line and then split it by the Colon ":" and the data will be placed in a array where like:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//Get Line into a string... as a test using prepared string
    string value = "E-Mail : E-Mail : joh...@gmail.com";

// Use a new char[] array of ( : ) to break
// lines from into separate strings. Use "RemoveEmptyEntries"
// to make sure no empty strings get put in the string[] array.
//
    char[] delimiters = new char[] { ':' };
    string[] parts = value.Split(delimiters,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
   
    for (int i = 0; i < parts.Length; i++)
    {
    Console.WriteLine(parts[i]);
    }

// parts[0] should contain E-Mail :
// parts[1] should contain joh...@gmail.com
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Ronald "Monty" Montemayor]

Using "Regular Expression", and PERL...  

You won't believe it,   Probably just 1 line of a few strings of regular expression is what it all takes.

[Ronald "Monty" Montemayor]

Using "Regular Expression", and PERL...  

You won't believe it,   Probably just 1 line of a few strings of regular expression is what it all takes.

But what exactly you are trying to do?

[Tikka308]

FYI I figured out how to do this in Excel (easiest for me since I'm
not a programmer).

If cell B3 has the text "First Name : Justin"
then you can use the formula "=MID(B3,(FIND(":",B3)+1),90)" to extract
"Justin".

> E-Mail : john...@gmail.com

[AtomSoft]

Glad you figured out a way, but this was way too broad of a question. Try being a little more specific next time and i bet more help would have come. Also thanks! for the Excel tip.