in reply to Re^2: Steps to get a substring from a string
in thread Steps to get a substring from a string

Wait! You have just changed the data. Before it was of the general form "name=servername ..." and now it is "servername ...".

Different forms of data will need different forms of regexes.

Please provide some better information or our help will just be guesswork.

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