I have two strings:

    //depot/Efp/Celox/CELOX-3.5.0/CeloxStart.sln
    //depot/Efp/Celox/MAIN/CeloxStart.sln
What I want to do is remove the part from both the beginning and end of this these two strings that match, and only leave the part that doesn't match.

In other words, I want to remove <font//depot/Efp/Celox from the front of the two strings and /CeloxStart.sln from the rear of these two strings. Leaving string #1 as CELOX-3.5.0 and the second string as MAIN Now, I know I can parse the strings one character at a time, but I was hoping for a method of mashing the two strings together in one or two steps -- maybe using regular expressions or maybe ANDing or ORing the two strings together, but how?

Any ideas of an efficient way of doing this? I have thousands of these records to process, and I want to do it as efficiently as possible.

In reply to Selecting the difference between two strings by qazwart

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