RegEx help please :)

[DW1]

Hi guys, it's been a while since I have posted

Work is keeping me too damn busy lol.

I need help getting a regular expression to work properly.

I have a file which contains data like:

Status : lable::somefunc() : "C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared"
Status : lable2::otherfunc() : "string here", "C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared"
SomeLable::datalogging::func(var) :  : Object did some thing C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared\somedll.dll on thread 0x0000000A.

I need to strip the file path out. They are not all going to be on the C: drive.

The return I would be looking for would look like this:

Status : lable::somefunc() : "something shared"
Status : lable2::otherfunc() : "string here", "something shared"
SomeLable::datalogging::func(var) :  : Object did some thing somedll.dll on thread 0x0000000A.

Note that I will still need the last entry from the path. If it is a file, then I need to keep the file name, and if it is a directory, I need to keep the lowest directory name.

I would need to loose everything between the 'X:\' the last '/' for every path.

Thanks a lot guys

[Xenobiologist]

$str = 'Status : lable::somefunc() : "C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared"' & @CRLF & _
        'Status : lable2::otherfunc() : "string here", "C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared"' & @CRLF & _
        'SomeLable::datalogging::func(var) :  : Object did some thing C:\Program Files\Common Files\something shared\somedll.dll on thread 0x0000000A.'

ConsoleWrite(StringRegExpReplace($str, '\w{1}:\\[a-zA-Z \\]+\\', '') & @CRLF)

Mega

[DW1]

Thanks Mega

Can you break that down for a noob? I am writing this for a console app that just does regex (project requirement) and that regex killed it haha. Probably just a difference in engines, so I need assistance breaking down the logic.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

\w*:\\[a-zA-Z \\]+\\

\w* means drive letter which is optional (*) because could be \\...\...\ as a path

:

\\ means \

[a-zA-Z \\] all the signs which are possible in the path. You may add äöü or something.

\\ end with a \

Mega

[DW1]

Thanks so much Mega, what about the "+"

if I remove the "+\\" it will not crash the app, but will not be correct results because I modified it.

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

what crashed what?

Have a look at : http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/pcrepattern.html

Mega

[DW1]

Thanks Mega, I will be talking with the person who wrote our regex engine. I think there may be something wrong with it.

Your solution is elegant and works flawlessly. It is our engine that needs help.

You rock!

Regards,

DW