yoinkster 0 Posted April 5, 2011 Hey guys, I think this will just be a quick one but I can't figure it out. What I'd like to do is pretty simple: I want to take a string, find if has a substring of the format "character-character" and then replace it with "character - character". So I figured I'd need to use StringRegExpReplace. Here's what I have so far: $string = "first-second" $string = StringRegExpReplace($string, "[^\s]-[^\s]"," - ") and this gives me, unsurprisingly, "firs - econd" and I know why it does that, but I can't figure out how to make it return "first - second" Any help would be greatly appreciated, AC. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMitchell 16 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Something like this: $string = StringRegExpReplace($string, "([^\s])-([^\s])","\1 - \2") Edit: Nevermind I have the wrong idea Edited April 5, 2011 by MrMitchell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aktonius 2 Posted April 5, 2011 Something like this: $string = StringRegExpReplace($string, "([^\s])-([^\s])","\1 - \2") Edit: Nevermind I have the wrong idea Think you have right idea Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMitchell 16 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Looking at what you were trying to do, this works: $input = "first-second" ConsoleWrite($input & @CRLF) $output = StringRegExpReplace($input, "-"," - ") ConsoleWrite($output & @CRLF) But it could get more complicated if it's not a straight up replace all hypens with "space hyphen space...actually could just use StringReplace() instead lol Edited April 5, 2011 by MrMitchell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yoinkster 0 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Something like this: $string = StringRegExpReplace($string, "([^\s])-([^\s])","\1 - \2") Edit: Nevermind I have the wrong idea This is exactly what I wanted, thank you Looking at what you were trying to do, this works: $input = "first-second" ConsoleWrite($input & @CRLF) $output = StringRegExpReplace($input, "-"," - ") ConsoleWrite($output & @CRLF) There are more complicated ways... This would have worked yes, but I didn't want end up having for example "first - second" (one space) becoming "first - second" (two spaces) hence wanting to find a not-space character Edited April 5, 2011 by yoinkster Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrMitchell 16 Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) The thing is according to the help file it would be \0 and \1 instead of \1 and \2, but no matter what I did I didn't get expected results. I don't have much experience with these haha (Another) Edit: I guess \1 and \2 is what you want, cuz \0 is the entire thing then \1 and \2 are the first and second set of parentheses. Edited April 5, 2011 by MrMitchell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yoinkster 0 Posted April 5, 2011 Ah ok, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation. One day I'll learn these things properly instead of just bodging it all the time! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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