Regex Help

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Sat Sep 27 08:23:05 EDT 2014


Michael, those are two awesome resources!  Thanks.

SKIP

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:

> Guys, I have been using these 2 sites lately and they are really a huge
> help in understanding regex:
>
> http://regex101.com/#pcre
> http://www.regexr.com
>
> Give them a try…
>   Mike
>
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
> skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Mark!
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> > m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Mark Schonewille
> >>
> >> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
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> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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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?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Best regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> Mark Schonewille
> >>>>
> >>>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
> >>>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
> >>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
> >>>> KvK: 50277553
> >>>>
> >>>> Installer Maker for LiveCode:
> >>>> http://qery.us/468
> >>>>
> >>>> Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner"
> >>>> http://qery.us/3fi
> >>>>
> >>>> LiveCode on Facebook:
> >>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Installer Maker for LiveCode:
> >>>>>> http://qery.us/468
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner"
> >>>>>> http://qery.us/3fi
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> LiveCode on Facebook:
> >>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 9/26/2014 22:27, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The results I want returned are:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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