I think we don't know enough about what he's looking for. It was said that he's looking for the text between the second pair of slashes. What if he is looking for the string between the last %/ and the very next / ? I think the input string is not described well enough in the original question. For all I can say, he could be looking for %/%/ as a fixed token, suck out all of the following characters until the first /, but this assumes all his input strings begin with %/%/ followed by what he needs to extract, which may not be a correct assumption.