stringregexp instead of stringsplit

[Aceguy]

one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|testx testy | mary had a little lamb|

my string

have tried

(?<=\|)\w*

please help

Edited May 9, 2009 by Aceguy

[Jos]

#include<array.au3>
$split = StringSplit("|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|testx testy | mary had a little lamb","|")
_ArrayDisplay($split)
$split = StringRegExp("|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|testx testy | mary had a little lamb","(.*?)\|",3)
_ArrayDisplay($split)

[Aceguy]

thanks Jos, your the Greatest

[Aceguy]

but the regexp does not capture last string, any ideas.?

[GEOSoft]

"(.*?)\|?"

[Jos]

but the regexp does not capture last string, any ideas.?

Which last string?

Oh.. i see

Could do this:

$split2 = StringRegExp("|one|two|three|four|five|six|seven|testx testy | mary had a little lamb" & "|","(.*?)\|",3)

Edited May 9, 2009 by Jos

[GEOSoft]

Which last string?

The way you had it "mary had a little lamb" would have been missed. You forgot the "?" after "|". I do it all the time too.

[Aceguy]

thanks guys, your the best

[Jos]

The way you had it "mary had a little lamb" would have been missed. You forgot the "?" after "|". I do it all the time too.

I saw that after I posted that and corrected it, but does your solution work in the example I posted ?

Jos

[GEOSoft]

Now that I have my eyes open... No.

[JackDinn]

i didn't understand why if you was picking up this question from my post this morning my post what was wrong with the $A_SRE=StringRegExp ($string,"\|?(.*?)\|" ,3) that was used in that post?

Edited May 9, 2009 by JackDinn

[Aceguy]

tried a search for my question and came up with your post, coulndt figure it out with expresso,\|?(.*?)\| does not work in it.

Edited May 9, 2009 by Aceguy

[JackDinn]

but yea i know how you feel trying to learn StringRegExp (), iv been looking at it for the last 2 days & pcre pattern matching is a right pain to learn (well is for me ) although i think iv got enough of a handle on it now to put it into use.

i found these helped a lot :-

regulazy

and this little app

g luck with it

p.s. ($string,"\|?(.*?)\|" ,3) worked fine with the test i did with that exact string

Edited May 9, 2009 by JackDinn

[Aceguy]

it worked, but didnt want it returing the | in expresso

Edited May 9, 2009 by Aceguy

[JackDinn]

"scratch head" shouldn't return any "|"'s

so what expression did you use that worked for you?

[Aceguy]

it works fine in autoit, but in expresso, i have been scratching my head for ages....

and as you can see, it returns the | at the end and doesnt return the last string ( i know i could put a | at the end) but wanted it to work like a proper Stringsplt

[JackDinn]

hmm interesting , where did you get that program pls ?

odd why its returning the "|" but AutoIt dont and Regulazy dont either, maybe you have the flag not set to 3 "global matches" not sure but id like to have a look at that prog though as im learning SRE also.

[Aceguy]

program is called Expresso, just google it

[JackDinn]

well weird, mine does return the last string but does also return the "|"'s to which it shouldn't.

must be something not set right here somewhere, cant really use the program if it dont return proper results but probably just missing something.

[JackDinn]

iv noticed that if you open the tree for each result it dont have the following "|" it seems to always put the ending exp character in the results for some reason?