More regex madness

[Mike Bonner]

I have to look everything up every time I use regex stuff myself, so not
sure I'd be the best choice for such a thing. In addition to which, my
communication skeelz lack, however this
http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html is a pretty good
reference sans many examples, but there are 1 or 2 small examples for each
item in the reference table, so is pretty darn helpful.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Hey! Right you are! The error was caused by a beginning asterisk and there
> was no preceding character. Ya know, what these so called regex primers need
> more than anything else is some good examples. Almost none of them have
> examples. Once I saw your example, it was clear as glass. Maybe you need to
> write up a regex primer! ;-)
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > the * matches any number of chars matching the preceeding char.
> > so *varchar*will try to match varcharrrrrrr
> > To do what you want, use the period which stand for any char.
> >
> > So.. ".*varchar.*default.*" might be closer to what you want. Can be some
> > weird results depending on whats in the string that is being regexed, but
> > should get you a start.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all.
> >>
> >> I read over the regex specifications, and I am more confused than ever.
> I
> >> want to find, say any text and "varchar" and any text and "default" and
> any
> >> text. I would think that:
> >>
> >> matchText("varchar(255) default `Yes`", "*varchar*default*") would
> return
> >> true, but no. I get:
> >>
> >> Message execution error:
> >> Error description: matchChunk: error in pattern expression
> >> Hint: bad escape sequence
> >>
> >> However:
> >>
> >> put matchText("varchar(255) default `Yes`", "varchar")
> >>
> >> returns true.
> >>
> >> How do I use wild cards?? I really thought I understood at least the
> basics
> >> of regex, but I see I do not.
> >>
> >> Bob
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