Dont understand :class: in StringRegExpReplace

[nAutoIT 1]

$a = "46 te2s t+"
$b = "test"
If StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^:alpha:]", "") = StringRegExpReplace($b, "[^:alpha:]", "") Then MsgBox(1, "", StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^:alpha:]", ""))

I am trying to compare 2 strings by letters only, but i do not get it. I could not find any examples in the forums or the AutoIt Help that actually use classes.

[cageman 4]

i am not that good with it either, but someone here helped me in the past too.

"[a-zA-Z]" that should be what you are trying.

Also http://www.rubular.com/ is an excellent site to test it.

what you are doing right now is checking if its not a letter by the way, because of the ^ in front.

Edited July 26, 2011 by cageman

[nAutoIT 1]

i am not that good with it either, but someone here helped me in the past too.

"[a-zA-Z]" that should be what you are trying.

Also http://www.rubular.com/ is an excellent site to test it.

That works, thanks a lot.

what you are doing right now is checking if its not a letter by the way, because of the ^ in front.

I was trying to replace all non-letters with "".

[SmOke_N 211]

Just to iterate on your original code...

The solution is you need to wrap those character classes...

Example:

$a = "46 te2s t+"
$b = "test"
If StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^[:alpha:]]", "") = StringRegExpReplace($b, "[^[:alpha:]]", "") Then MsgBox(1, "", StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^[:alpha:]]", ""))

[nAutoIT 1]

Just to iterate on your original code...

The solution is you need to wrap those character classes...

Example:

$a = "46 te2s t+"
$b = "test"
If StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^[:alpha:]]", "") = StringRegExpReplace($b, "[^[:alpha:]]", "") Then MsgBox(1, "", StringRegExpReplace($a, "[^[:alpha:]]", ""))

Dang. I tried "[[^:alpha:]]" and it did not work. Good to know what i did wrong there.

In the AutoIt Help it says:

[^:class:] Match any character not in the class, but only if the first character. [sic]

[:alpha:] letters

Is that a mistake in the AutoIt Help?

[SmOke_N 211]

Dang. I tried "[[^:alpha:]]" and it did not work. Good to know what i did wrong there.

In the AutoIt Help it says:

[^:class:] Match any character not in the class, but only if the first character. [sic]

[:alpha:] letters

Is that a mistake in the AutoIt Help?

Yes, must be.

I always look at the entire class string ( eg. [:class:] ) as a single character.

Having said that, that would require us to wrap it in brackets ( eg. [[:class:]] ), and to prevent capture [^[:class:]].

Edited July 26, 2011 by SmOke_N