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Need some Scan from String help...

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This is a primitive I never really use, and I often end up going with a hacky approach of combining search from string, match pattern, and some other primitives to get the job done.  I'm feeling like this current task I have of parsing out 2 paths should be a simple job for scan from string, but I can't seem to get the format string right.

 

string of interest is formatted like:

 

"C:\temp\file-123-456.jpg" "C:\temp\folder"

 

I just want the 2 paths (without the quotes) as string so I can convert them to path and be on my way...

 

I tried "%s" "%s" and some others with brackets but no luck yet...

 

thanks

 

edit:spellage

edit2: looks like it's not as easy as I thought:  https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-to-scan-quoted-string/td-p/730090

 

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Use the bracket notation for a string.  So you can use [^"] to read a string up to a quotation mark.  So you can use "[^"]" to read the quoted string.


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