Regex Help

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Skip,

If it contains numbers and letters, it could be

/point-item[0-9a-zA-Z]+-landed.html

and if it contains anything except whitespace, it could be

/point-item[\w]+-landed.html

Both options work with the sample data you provided.

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On 9/26/2014 22:54, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
> Sorry... it contains letters.  Sorry for the confusion.  I should have been
> more complete with my explanation and sample data.
>
> SKIP
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Then what exactly does the middle item contain? Numbers and letters?
>> Special symbols? Chinese?
>>
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>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
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>>
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>> On 9/26/2014 22:49, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>>
>>> The middle item "XXXXX" does not always have a number in it.  The common
>>> denominator between all the items I WANT to keep start with "page-" and
>>> end
>>> with "-landed.html"
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Mark Schonewille <
>>> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Then you can try this:
>>>>
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>        put "/point-item[0-9]+-landed.html" into myFilter
>>>>        put fld 1 into myData
>>>>        filter myData with regex pattern myFilter
>>>>        put myData
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>>
>>>> This is a LiveCode example, but you can apply the regex
>>>> "/point-item[0-9]+-landed.html" in PHP or Perl. I tried this with and
>>>> without escaping the slash and dashes, but escaping seems unnecesary. If
>>>> the regex doesn't work in PHP or Perl, maybe you could try
>>>>
>>>> \/point\-item[0-9]+\-landed.html
>>>>
>>>> but I haven't tested if this would be necessary.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mark Schonewille
>>>>
>>>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
>>>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
>>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
>>>> KvK: 50277553
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner"
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>>>> On 9/26/2014 22:27, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   The results I want returned are:
>>>>>
>>>>>
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