Regex help getting version details

[storme]

G'day all

I'm extracting version information from a web site. However the field comes out like this

"{Program name containing spaces} {Version number}[ beta {beta number]"

Originaly I was ignoring beta vereions so just ignored it and used this line to get the version number

$sCurrentVersion = StringMid($asCurrentVersion[0], StringInStr($asCurrentVersion[0], " ", 0, -1) + 1)

However for something like this "Firefox 12.0 Beta 6" I get a version of 6 when I'd like "12.0 Beta 6"

Now I could write up several lines ofr code to stripe parts from the line till I get what I want.

However, it would get very messy and I'm sure the regex gurus have a simple (complicated looking) single line that does all the work very elegantly.

It has to handle situations like these:

Firefox 12.0 Beta 6

Version = 12.0 Beta 6

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.30 Beta

Version = 19.0.1084.30 Beta

ACDSee 14.2.157

Version = 14.2.157

Flash Player 11.3.300.231 Beta 2 (IE)

Version = 11.3.300.231 Beta 2

Google Chrome 19.0.1084.30 Beta

Version = 19.0.1084.30 Beta

Thanks in advance for any help!

John Morrison

[jchd]

$version = StringRegExp($text, "^(?:.+?)(?=d+.)(.*)$", 1)

[storme]

$version = StringRegExp($text, "^(?:.+?)(?=\d+\.)(.*)$", 1)

Thanks Mate!

I did ask for an Expert and I got one.

I did give it a fo myself nad had some of the right elements but couldn't get it to work.

If you don't mind I'm trying to understand the regex and this is what I've got so far.

^ - Start of line

(?:.+?) - NON capture group 1 or more characters

(?= - Can'f find this one in the AutoIT help file?? But I'm guessing it's a look a head

\d+ - One of more digits

\. - Would seem to indicate a full stop (period) ??WHY??

) - end of look ahead

(.*) - Capture ALL

$ - to end of line

OK I get what the period was for now. To look for at least one . in a version number. However there are a few that don't have them so I'll have to remove that to allow for them. Sorry I didn't have one in the examples.

So teh new version should look like this.

$version = StringRegExp($text, "^(?:.+?)(?=\d+)(.*)$", 1)

The only thing it didn't do was remove the (ie) from the end of the "Flash Player 11.3.300.231 Beta 2 (IE)" version but that I can live with and I think the regex would get complicated to do that one and still pick up everything else.

Thanks for the help!

John Morrison

[GEOSoft]

this might work a bit better

$version = stringregexp($text, "^(?:.+?)(?=[d.]+)(.*)$", 1)

[storme]

this might work a bit better

$version = stringregexp($text, "^(?:.+?)(?=[d.]+)(.*)$", 1)

Unless I made a mistake [d.] means (any digit) or . Period.

But wouldn't that mean that if a program name contains a . then it would mess up?

eg "My great .net updater 4.0" : Version = ".net updater 4.0"

As all versions I have found start with a digit I think I'll leave periods out of it completly.

BUT a big thanks for the suggestion.