Regular Expression Syntax.

[Bokkie]

Can anyone help me with a regular expression that will validate the GUID below?

{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}

I'd like to be really strict and take the braces and dash characters into account as well as verify the hex groups are comprised of hex characters and don't contain non-hex characters like Z and T for example. I confess I'm hopeless with regular expressions so a free virtual crate of beers to the first contributor.

[seandisanti]

Can anyone help me with a regular expression that will validate the GUID below?

{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}

I'd like to be really strict and take the braces and dash characters into account as well as verify the hex groups are comprised of hex characters and don't contain non-hex characters like Z and T for example. I confess I'm hopeless with regular expressions so a free virtual crate of beers to the first contributor.

i actually don't use regexp (i am too lazy to try to wrap my head around them) but i can write you up a real quick validator with string functions.

[greenmachine]

I don't normally either, but I can figure out the helpfile well enough to produce this:

MsgBox (0, "", StringRegExp ("{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}", "(\x{8}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{12})"))

It returns 1, which means it passes.

Edited March 15, 2006 by greenmachine

[seandisanti]

I don't normally either, but I can figure out the helpfile well enough to produce this:

MsgBox (0, "", StringRegExp ("{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}", "(\x{8}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{12})"))

It returns 1, which means it passes.

you think you're better than me?!

kidding. i won't do better than one line of code with what i'm working on, and it looks like problem is solved. good job man.

[Joon]

I don't normally either, but I can figure out the helpfile well enough to produce this:

MsgBox (0, "", StringRegExp ("{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}", "(\x{8}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{12})"))

It returns 1, which means it passes.

Thanks, greenmachine

I know little now...

so much easier to understand with an example.

Edited March 15, 2006 by Joon

[greenmachine]

you think you're better than me?!

kidding. i won't do better than one line of code with what i'm working on, and it looks like problem is solved. good job man.

Actually I was really surprised that it worked on my first try... most things don't work out that well.

Hmm, I just noticed that it doesn't check the brackets... and now that I test more I'm noticing that it doesn't actually return 0 for anything.... time to redo the pattern.

Edit - Fixed the pattern: "\{\x{8}-\x{4}-\x{4}-\x{4}-\x{12}\}"

Edited March 16, 2006 by greenmachine

[Valik]

I wouldn't use regular expressions at all. Strip the {}- characters and then use StringIsXDigit() on it.

Func IsValidCLSID($sCLSID)
    Local $sTemp = StringReplace($sCLSID, "{", "")
    $sTemp = StringReplace($sTemp, "}", "")
    $sTemp = StringReplace($sTemp, "-", "")
    Return StringIsXDigit($sTemp)
EndFunc

A regular expression would probably be faster, however.

[Bokkie]

I don't normally either, but I can figure out the helpfile well enough to produce this:

MsgBox (0, "", StringRegExp ("{1B399A41-C1D0-40A2-9E4F-095868EFAF01}", "(\x{8}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{4}\-\x{12})"))

It returns 1, which means it passes.

I've got the latest release installed but my helpfile has nothing in it for StringRegExp. In fact I can't even find it anywhere and SciTE throws a compilation error saying the function could not be found. I can't find it listed in any include files. I've got 3.1.1 installed. Edited March 16, 2006 by Peter Hamilton-Scott

[nfwu]

You require the latest BETA release.

#)

[Bokkie]

You require the latest BETA release.

#)

It's a bad day for me. Where do I find the beta download?

Edit: I found it...

Edited March 16, 2006 by Peter Hamilton-Scott

[SmOke_N]

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