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Or do my work for me.
Only joking, I have just been presented with a very small issue, just wondering if those of you who like this sort of thing might be able to come up with an elegant solution, just for fun.
I have a field that has a text string in it.
The text string will probably contain an error code, but might not.
The error code, so far as I can tell, will be 2 letters followed by 6 numbers or 3 letters followed by 5 numbers.
The error code, so far as I can tell, will be at the start or the end of the text string.
I need to extract the error code (should it exist) into a new field and the rest of the string into another.
Typing the question has, I believe, shown me the way to proceed.
Bonus credit; I have to do it in xsl.
I shall do it as soon as Eclipse starts working again.
Examples:
<m:StatusMessage xsi:type="xsd:string">Duplicate ContactReference supplied</m:StatusMessage>
<m:StatusMessage xsi:type="xsd:string">ss000073 Invalid value entered in PropertyRef tag</m:StatusMessage>
<m:StatusMessage xsi:type="xsd:string">Exchange Final reading cannot be less than the previous reading - xml00159</m:StatusMessage>
ps, don't you love it when companies apply no standards whatsoever to their work.
pps, if I'm honest I just wanted to complain about the lack of standards
ppps, I think it is due to developers who assume everything they create will be read by a human rather than by a computer
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: do my work for me.
Hah! Take it to QA like the rest of 'em! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's easy-peasy with a Regex... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's not particularly tricky, I just don't trust them not to stick a code in the middle of the message or some such nonsense.
It's a pita having to code for all things people could do, no matter how stupid.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Regex has "^" which is "start of string" to cope with that kind of rubbish!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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and '$' for "end of string" 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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chriselst wrote: as soon as Eclipse starts working
Let's make it the Monday Mission then...
veni bibi saltavi
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I turned the computer off and went out for lunch.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Where should we send the codez? Could you please post your email address? It's Urgentz! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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"
EXSLT - Regular Expressions covers extension elements and functions that provide facilities to do with regular expressions.
For ease of implementation, the regular expressions used in this module currently use the Javascript regular expression syntax.
XSLT processors may support any number of the extension elements and functions given in this module.
Using EXSLT will only make your stylesheet portable amongst the implementations that support EXSLT. Note that there is no requirement for XSLT processors that are compliant to XSLT to support the extensions described within EXSLT.
" -- http://exslt.org/regexp/[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: I suspect their web site was coded via QA
So you and SK did the coding then?
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No wonder then... (now I'll be nuked by SK. It was fun being part of the community, goodbye ).
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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Exactly.
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My car insurance company silently changed password policies (or implementation) during the year, so that special characters would not be allowed. Of coure I am a diligent enigneer so ALL OF MY PASSWORDS have special characters. I could not log in, so I clicked the password recovery feature (I honestly thought I might have forgotten) aaand... they sent me an e-mail with my current password in clear text. No temporary password to log in and change. Nothing... and of course that password wouldn't work. I needed 3 days of phonecalls to non-existant customer service numbers - I had to use whois informations to get to the legal registered office and phone them. Then I needed to explain several times that I ALREADY CLICKED ON THAT FUMIGATING BUTTON.
Solution: after threatening them with lawsuit and publicity of all the endeavour on the national papers they destroyed my current account allowing me to open another one tied to my insurance number with a new password and applied all the feasible discounts on my renewal.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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Quote: applied all the feasible discounts on my renewal
All's well that ends well!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If it's any consolation, my car insurer got my e-mail address wrong so I phoned to change it.
Guess what the last security question is....
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Ok, who can guess what this unit of measurement stands for;
gpf
spotted on a piece of essential equipment while out and about.........
And no the G is not for gin Nagy..... 
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Gallons per Foot?
Goats per Furlong?
veni bibi saltavi
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first one was close, second was rubbish........ 
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Glass per Friend.
Minimum recommended is 1.
while (true) {
continue;
}
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Gallons per flush? Essential equipment
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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Yah!
spotted stamped on top of a urinal while having a waz!
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Glitter Proof Fence
It is the standard that all places of young people must have around their perimeter in the county that Paul Francis Gadd lives.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: county that Paul Francis Gadd lives.
That would be mine then, he lived in Lee-on-Solent. About 6-7 years ago he pulled up next to us at Traffic Lights - by a strange coincidence we had a 14 year-old Thai girl in the back of our car at the time.
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