Is there VBScript example code on the net that allows one to parse chunks of text
as tokens?  For example, if I had a formatted string like:

     alpha: a, bravo: b, charlie: c, delta: d, echo: e, ...

I would like to be able to search for the token "alpha:" and then pick the next
token (which happens to be "a") then search for the token "bravo:" and pick the
next token (which happens to be "b"), etc.

Java has a "tokenizer" class that makes this kind of text work easy.  There is no
similar class in VBScript, but someone may have written one.

Dave

set tokens = createobject("scripting.dictionary")
strTokens = "alpha: a, bravo: b, charlie: c, delta: d, echo: e"
arTokens = split(strTokens,",")
for each item in arTokens
  temp = split(item,":")
  tokens(trim(temp(0))) = trim(temp(1))
next

s = ""
for each k in tokens.keys
  s = s & "token " & k _
    & " is equal to " & tokens(k) & vbcrlf
next

msgbox s

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Is there VBScript example code on the net that allows one to parse chunks of text
as tokens?  For example, if I had a formatted string like:

     alpha: a, bravo: b, charlie: c, delta: d, echo: e, ...

I would like to be able to search for the token "alpha:" and then pick the next
token (which happens to be "a") then search for the token "bravo:" and pick the
next token (which happens to be "b"), etc.

Java has a "tokenizer" class that makes this kind of text work easy.  There is no
similar class in VBScript, but someone may have written one.

Dave