1) I need only to find a certain part of a string in the 'if entityname()' command, for the countchild/getchild loop. (see above code)
To find a string inside another one, use Instr.
Instr will return the location of string2 in string1. If it can't be found, it will return zero.
Open in online IDEIf Instr("a blue cube", "cube") > 0 Then Print "'cube' is in 'a blue cube'" EndIf
2) I then need to extract the other parts of that same string and use that for further coding.
For extracting a string from another string, use Mid$.
Mid$ will return the part of the string from the given starting location with the given length. See the help page on Mid$ for an example.
s1$ = "a green cube" s2$ = "green" cc = Instr(s1$, s2$) If (cc > 0) Then Print Mid$(s1$, 1, cc - 1) Print Mid$(s1$, cc + Len(s2$), Len(s1$)) EndIf