GrandFather - you have been a huge help in my getting to know Regex. If I may ask one more question as I am still learning the in's and out's of Regex. In the data below if you could show me one more thing. 
What you sent I took and it worked great, I have a slit modification I
+ need, and I am not sure how to get it working. When I have a line en
+ding in a ) I want to through it out unless in the same string you fi
+nd .dat, if so then I want to keep the (from exp below) 58bn5904 and 
+also keep the 859216 bytes.

DATA:
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sen
+t file d:\data\58bn5904.sta successfully (1.05 Kb/sec - 61 bytes)
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sen
+ding file d:\data\58bn5904.sta
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19 - (006415) Sen
+t file d:\data\58bn5904.dat successfully (25.0 Kb/sec - 859216 bytes)
 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:06:46 - (006415) Sen
+ding file d:\data\58bn5904.dat

Output Looking for:
Skip:
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sen
+t file d:\data\58bn5904.sta successfully (1.05 Kb/sec - 61 bytes)
Skip: 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:20 - (006415) Sen
+ding file d:\data\58bn5904.sta
Extract beardstownbase, Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19, 58bn5904, 859216 bytes 
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:07:19 - (006415) Sen
+t file d:\data\58bn5904.dat successfully (25.0 Kb/sec - 859216 bytes)
Skip:
e:\logfiles\beardstownbase.log [3] Thu 22Jun06 08:06:46 - (006415) Sen
+ding file d:\data\58bn5904.dat

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Again Thanks for all the help - I am learning!

In reply to Re^5: splitting up a string based on character locations by batcater98
in thread splitting up a string based on character locations by batcater98

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