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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a series of strings that look something like this: xxxxyyyyyyxx. How can I extract just the y’s?-- JB Hey, JB. And, yes, it is a Friday. But, hey, it’s just a coincidence that we happened to pick an easy question on a Friday, the day we’re itching to get out of here and go home and spend the weekend watching football a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that my help desk people use to create user accounts. Unfortunately, sometimes these help desk personnel get in a hurry and type in names like this: kEn MYEr. How can I convert names to proper case (i.e., Ken Myer)?-- LC Hey, LC. You know what: you’re in luck. Usually when it comes to doing anything properly t...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that compares two email addresses and tells me whether or not they are the same. Sometimes the email addresses are the same, but the case is different: for example, one address might be example@abc.com and the other might be example@ABC.com. My script always tells me that these are different email addresses. Ho...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to be able to read through a text file, select the lines that begin with a particular word (like Failure), and then save only those lines back to the same text file. Is there any way to do that?-- AC Hey, AC. Hey, AC. For simplicity’s sake, we’re assuming you have a text file that looks similar to this:Success - Oper...

I know that I can use the Split command to separate a sentence like this - VBScript is fun! - into an array of individual words. However, what happens if I have a sentence like this: VBScript is fun! I can’t use a blank space as the delimiter because I might have lots of blank spaces. And I can’t use a specific number of blank spaces as the delimi...