Regex Help

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Fri Sep 26 17:34:31 EDT 2014


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.
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
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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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>>>
>>> Mark Schonewille
>>>
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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
>>>>>
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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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