matchText & Regex help!

[ARAS]

Hello all,

I need some help. I need to get the number which is after "id_no=" in a field.

I have tried to get it with the code below but the answer box is always empty. It doesn't return the value. Is there a way to return the value that matches with regex? For example, 21234 from the link below.

Inside the field
http://www.abcdef.com/odc/eds.asp?id_no=21234

Code

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answer funwithRegex("id_no=[0-9]*")

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function funwithRegex theName
   if matchText( field "Field", theName, theValue) then
      return theValue
   else
      return "not found"
   end if
end funwithRegex

Thanks for the help.

[phaworth]

You need some "capturing parentheses" in your regex. Right now the regex matches but there's nothing for it to return to you. Try:

id_no=([0-9]*)

Pete

[ARAS]

Thanks Pete! It works!