General ⇒ xString - Problem with extracting from string

[Linus0000]

Hey everyone,

My problem is, that I want give strings a number. This works well. The problem with that is, that I'm not able to read back the given numbers for each string. I can only read back the number of the first entry, not the last both even. The Problem seems to be the read out, because the full assignment is right.

What I want is the output:
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3

Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}

\newcommand{\stringToNumberTable}{One:1;Two:2;Three:3;}

\begin{document}
A) \StrBetween{\stringToNumberTable}{One:}{;}\\
B) \StrBetween{\stringToNumberTable}{Two:}{;}\\
C) \StrBetween{\stringToNumberTable}{Three:}{;}\\

\stringToNumberTabTable
\end{document}

[rais]

You're looking for the wrong ; character for second and third: the first occurance of ";" is before the first string ("Two:" / "Three:"). That's why nothing is returned. You could try

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}

\newcommand{\stringToNumberTable}{One:1;Two:2;Three:3;}

\begin{document}
A) \StrBetween{\stringToNumberTable}{One:}{;}\\
B) \StrBetween[1,2]{\stringToNumberTable}{Two:}{;}\\
C) \StrBetween[1,3]{\stringToNumberTable}{Three:}{;}\\

\stringToNumberTable
\end{document}

KR
Rainer

[Linus0000]

First of all, thanks for that fast help. But my problem is then not fully solved. So when I understand correctly, I need to know the position inside of the String. But thats no information I have for the application I want to do.

My goal is to implement a new commmand, which every time I use it gives a number to that string (each time increased by 1 staring at 1 -> 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on). With another command I want to read out the String to know, which number that String has. If I would know the position, I would know the Number. Therefore I need to read the number out without knowing the position inside of that string (It will be probably longer thant only 3 pairs).

I hope you can understand, what I mean with that.

[rais]

Yes, I think I do. What's keeping you from creating your own string-between? Could look like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xstring}

\newcommand{\stringToNumberTable}{One:1;Two:2;Three:3;}
\newcommand*\mytmp{}
\newcommand*\mystrbetween[3]{%
  \StrBehind{#1}{#2}[\mytmp]%
  \typeout{+++ (\mytmp)}%
  \StrBefore{\mytmp}{#3}%
}

\begin{document}
A) \mystrbetween{\stringToNumberTable}{One:}{;}\\
B) \mystrbetween{\stringToNumberTable}{Two:}{;}\\
C) \mystrbetween{\stringToNumberTable}{Three:}{;}\\

\stringToNumberTable
\end{document}

This \mystrbetween will discard anything from the search string up to the first search string, before it looks for the second search string. This way, there won't be any second-search-string-found-before-first.
E.g., in the second case, the \StrBehind command will discard everything up to and including "Two:", then divert the resulting string (2;Three:3;) into macro \mytmp, which then is passed on to \StrBefore as first argument---there, the first ";" is the first one following 2

KR
Rainer

[Linus0000]

Hey, this has worked. But one last question to the format. The Problem I have is, that I do not want this empty spaces between e.g. "Tab1:" and the other text behind, or the output of \nr. I tried to fix this by compressing the code (which made the spaces smaller but did not erase completely, and it then is also hard to read :/).

The Code looks like this right now.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{xstring}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\newcommand{\stringToNumberTabTable}{}
\newcommand{\stringToNumberFigTable}{}

\newcounter{StringCounterTab}
\setcounter{StringCounterTab}{1}
\newcounter{StringCounterFig}
\setcounter{StringCounterFig}{1}

\newcommand*\mytmp{}
\newcommand*\myStrBetween[3]{%
	\StrBehind{#1}{#2}[\mytmp]%
	\typeout{+++ (\mytmp)}%
	\StrBefore{\mytmp}{#3}%
}

\newcommand{\nr}[1]{
\StrLeft{#1}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString]
\StrLeft{SITab}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfSecondString]
\StrLeft{SIFig}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfThirdString]
\IfStrEq{\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString}{\firstFiveCharsOfSecondString}{\IfSubStr{\stringToNumberTabTable}{#1}{S\myStrBetween{\stringToNumberTabTable}{#1:}{;}}{\colorbox{red}{Label for table not defined.}}}{\IfStrEq{\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString}{\firstFiveCharsOfThirdString}{\IfSubStr{\stringToNumberFigTable}{#1}{S\myStrBetween{\stringToNumberFigTable}{#1:}{;}}{\colorbox{red}{Label for figure not defined.}}}{\ref{#1}}}}		


\newcommand{\nl}[1]{
\StrLeft{#1}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString]
\StrLeft{SITab}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfSecondString]
\StrLeft{SIFig}{5}[\firstFiveCharsOfThirdString]
\IfStrEq{\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString}{\firstFiveCharsOfSecondString}
{\IfSubStr{\stringToNumberTabTable}{#1}{\colorbox{red}{Label already defined!}}{\edef\stringToNumberTabTable{\stringToNumberTabTable#1:\arabic{StringCounterTab};}\stepcounter{StringCounterTab}\relax}}{\IfStrEq{\firstFiveCharsOfFirstString}{\firstFiveCharsOfThirdString}{\IfSubStr{\stringToNumberFigTable}{#1}{\colorbox{red}{Label already defined!}}{\edef\stringToNumberFigTable{\stringToNumberFigTable#1:\arabic{StringCounterFig};}\stepcounter{StringCounterFig}\relax}}{\label{#1}}}
}





%Minimalbeispiel

\begin{document}
	\section{nl}
	Tab1:\nl{SITab1}gibt nichts aus\\
	Tab2:\nl{SITab2}gibt nichts aus\\
	Tab3:\nl{SITab3}gibt nichts aus\\
	Fig1:\nl{SIFig1}gibt nichts aus\\
	Fig2:\nl{SIFig2}gibt nichts aus\\
	Fig3:\nl{SIFig3}gibt nichts aus
	
	\section{nr}
	Tab1: \nr{SITab1} gibt was aus\\
	Tab2: \nr{SITab2} gibt was aus\\
	Tab3: \nr{SITab3} gibt was aus\\
	Fig1: \nr{SIFig1} gibt was aus\\
	Fig2: \nr{SIFig2} gibt was aus\\
	Fig3: \nr{SIFig3} gibt was aus
	
	\section{Stings}
	A) \stringToNumberTabTable\\
	B) \stringToNumberFigTable
\end{document}

[rais]

Yes, that's called a significant space.
A newline character from the input inserts a space in the output. It doesn't matter, if this newline character is part of the text body or part of a command definition.
There's an easy way to `hide' this newline character, to prevent a command from adding spaces where none should be: end each line in your command definitions with a comment character (%), then the newline character is commented out.
And if you look closely you'll notice that I did that in my definition of \mystrbetween already.

On the other hand, leading spaces (at the beginning of a line) are usually ignored, that's why you can use indentation for better readability of your code without fear of creating yet another space in the output.

KR
Rainer

[Linus0000]

Ok, that was new for me. I was always confused, why there is a % in the end of the line.

Thanks for you support