StringRegExp

[Vossen]

Hi,

I need some help as I never really got StringRegExp.

I get text like e.g.

["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS

or

["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS

When doing this...

StringRegExp($aFile[$i], '(?i)["(.*?)","(.*?)","(.*?)",(.*?)](.*?)', 1)

It returns: I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS

Then I tried...

StringRegExp($aFile[$i], '(?i)["([^"]+)","([^"]+)","([^"]+)",([^"]+)](.*?)', 1)

But then it returns nothing... Please help, my brain fried. Did I completely misunderstand the concept of RegExp?

// Vossen

[Bowmore]

This should will work for your sample data.

#include <array.au3>
$Test = '["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS["I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS","I WANT THIS",I WANT THIS]I WANT THIS'

$aMatches = StringRegExp($Test,["\][,]+([^"\][,]+)',3)
_ArrayDisplay($aMatches)

Edit: Minor modification to regular expression

Edited August 7, 2010 by Bowmore

[Vossen]

It seems to work for my use, thank you! I am not sure I ever will get RegExp.

Edit: The new one seems to miss a part though.

Edited August 7, 2010 by Vossen

[seandisanti]

It seems to work for my use, thank you! I am not sure I ever will get RegExp.

Edit: The new one seems to miss a part though.

i still struggle with them sometimes, at the bottom of the string regular expression tutorial in the help file there is a tool that has helped me A LOT. StringRegExpGUI.au3 there's a button to load it into scite and then run, and it will let you test patterns etc against sample data etc. The tutorial is a pretty good one for the basics too

[GEOSoft]

If you look in my signature there is a PCRE toolkit that will test your regular expressions against data from several sources.

[Vossen]

Couldn't make Bowmore's try act 100% as I wanted it to, but thanks to GEOSoft I was able to test all sorts of lame ideas and somehow I made it work. Thanks.