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| [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 10.02.07 18:54 (Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:54:36 -0700) |
| From: Chuck Pelto |
|
Greetings,
Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE character? Regards, Chuck _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 10.02.07 18:56 (Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:56:45 -0500) |
| From: Bill Marcy |
|
http://www.rblibrary.com has a couple of great articles.
On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > Greetings, > > Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a > RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while > excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE > character? > > Regards, > > Chuck > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > <<email address removed>> > REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the > online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list > will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your > REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you > are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at > <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 11.02.07 00:07 (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:07:09 +1100) |
| From: Mark Davis |
|
Hi Chuck,
I've found the RB Doco for RegEx to be good, but if something isn't in it, then you can always go to the 'source' of RB's RegEx. http://www.pcre.org/ If you follow the documentation link to the text file version of the pcre man page, i suggest scrolling down to the Backslash section, specifically "Non-printing characters" section for your escape code. - Mark On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:54:36 +1100, Chuck Pelto <<email address removed>> wrote: > Greetings, > > Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a RegEx > request that will allow for double-quotation marks while excluding any > that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE character? > > Regards, > > Chuck > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > <<email address removed>> > REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the > online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no > longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL > SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member > of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 11.02.07 11:46 (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:46:06 -0500) |
| From: Jack Dolby |
|
You might look at <http://regexlib.com/default.aspx>
jack On 2/10/07 12:54 PM, "Chuck Pelto" <<email address removed>> wrote: > Greetings, > > Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a > RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while > excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE > character? > > Regards, > > Chuck > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > <<email address removed>> > REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online > Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be > active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server > discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, > please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 11.02.07 16:56 (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:56:12 -0500) |
| From: Charles Yeomans |
|
On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > Greetings, > > Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a > RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while > excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE > character? I'd suggest the REALbasic mailing lists. We'd need a little more information about the regular expression you're trying to write. Charles Yeomans _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 11.02.07 17:38 (Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:38:24 -0700) |
| From: Ed Shuler |
|
Try
http://wiki.tcl.tk/989 http://www.lugaru.com/man/Regular.Expression.Examples.html http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/Regex.html es On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a >> RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while >> excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE >> character? > > I'd suggest the REALbasic mailing lists. We'd need a little more > information about the regular expression you're trying to write. > > Charles Yeomans > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe: > <<email address removed>> > REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the > online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list > will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your > REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you > are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at > <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. Ed Shuler "Unix for power; Macintosh for productivity; Windows for solitaire" _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
| Re: [OT] Esoteric RegEx Code Examples |
| Date: 12.02.07 17:16 (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:16:38 -0700) |
| From: Chuck Pelto |
|
Morning Charles,
On Feb 11, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Charles Yeomans wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> Where can I find a good site to go to for advice on how to code a >> RegEx request that will allow for double-quotation marks while >> excluding any that are preceded by a symbol indicating an ESCAPE >> character? > > I'd suggest the REALbasic mailing lists. We'd need a little more > information about the regular expression you're trying to write. I'm trying to write a RegEx call that will identify text between pairs of doube-quotation marks, excluding any such mark that is preceded by an ESCAPE character. The ESCAPE character, for the sake of discussion, is the backwards slash (\) character. Therefore, in a string of text from and EditField that reads as follows: This is a test by "Chuck Pelto" for "Susan Pelto" done in "\"Olde\" English" It would find the following items: [1] "Chuck Pelto" [2] "Susan Pelto" [3] ""Olde" English" I've got the part of getting the stuff between double-quotation marks working. It reads as follows: // method to test aspects of Regular Expressions dim rg as New RegEx dim theMatch as RegExMatch dim strInput as string dim strQuots as string dim srchPatt as string dim iCount as integer dim i as integer iCount s strInput oditField1.text srchPatt ,hr(34) + ".*?" + chr(34) // HERE is the pattern that looks for text between double-quotation marks in a non-greedy manner rg.SearchPattern trchPatt theMatch Eg.Search(strInput) while theMatch<> nil iCount Count + 1 strQuots iheMatch.subExpressionString(0) theMatch og.search() wend What I need now is to figure out how to get it to exclude double- quotation marks that are preceded by the ESCAPE character (\). I'm learning how to do this using TextWrangler. I'm toying around with the following variation on the basic search pattern..... srchPatt hr(34) + ".*?" + chr(34) + "[^(\")]" Do you think THAT would work? Regards, Chuck _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: <<email address removed>> REAL Software has decided to consolidate this mailing list with the online Forums. On Monday, February 12, 2007, this mailing list will no longer be active. We encourage you to continue your REALbasic and REAL SQL Server discussions on the Forums. If you are not presently a member of the forum, please sign up today at <http://forums.realsoftware.com>. |
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