Hard time with Regexp

[MikeP]

Hi. I'm clearly not used to Autoit's Regexps and that's driving me crazy, here are example strings :

http://www.random.com/dir01/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir02/files/

http://www.random.com/dir03/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir04/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir05/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir06/files/

goal : detecting empty ones

In UltraEdit (i'm a long time user), it's very easy, this is done like this :

%*files/$

% = line start
* = any character
$ = line end (not CR or CRLF)

I want to translate it in AutoIt but I simply can't get it.

I tried

$test = StringRegExp($urlstring, ".*files//", 0)

but this never match... and I want it to match the lines that ends with files/

Could anyone with some RegExp knowledge help me a bit please? Thanks.

[Monamo]

Hi. I'm clearly not used to Autoit's Regexps and that's driving me crazy, here are example strings :

http://www.random.com/dir01/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir02/files/

http://www.random.com/dir03/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir04/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir05/files/test.htm

http://www.random.com/dir06/files/

goal : detecting empty ones

In UltraEdit (i'm a long time user), it's very easy, this is done like this :

%*files/$

% = line start
* = any character
$ = line end (not CR or CRLF)

I want to translate it in AutoIt but I simply can't get it.

I tried

$test = StringRegExp($urlstring, ".*files//", 0)

but this never match... and I want it to match the lines that ends with files/

Could anyone with some RegExp knowledge help me a bit please? Thanks.

Just a quick syntactical switch (pattern = "files/\z") - The pattern details are lengthy, but pretty well fleshed out in the help file under StringRegExp(). Here's a quick code and dirty code example to verify the pattern:

CODE

$string1 = "http://www.random.com/dir01/files/test.htm"

$string2 = "http://www.random.com/dir02/files/"

$string3 = "http://www.random.com/dir03/files/test.htm"

$string4 = "http://www.random.com/dir04/files/test.htm"

$string5 = "http://www.random.com/dir05/files/test.htm"

$string6 = "http://www.random.com/dir06/files/"

_TestString($string1)

_TestString($string2)

_TestString($string3)

_TestString($string4)

_TestString($string5)

_TestString($string6)

Func _TestString($str)

$sPattern = "files/\z"

$iMatchPattern = StringRegExp($str, $sPattern, 0)

If $iMatchPattern Then

ConsoleWrite("Match *** " &$str &@CRLF)

Else

ConsoleWrite("No match *** " &$str &@CRLF)

EndIf

EndFunc

Edit: Updated suggested pattern to a shorter valid pattern match Edited May 22, 2008 by Monamo

[MikeP]

Thanks, you enlightened me of something quite easy but since i'm beginner in that syntax...

Btw there was a mistake .. I didn't have to escape the / since it's not a backslash \ .. well, you know what I mean.

Anyway my problem was the description in helpfile :

\z Match only at end of string

where in fact.. that MEANS 'end of string' I never understood that. Thanks !

Edited May 22, 2008 by MikeP