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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 13:45 
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Okay, so I've got a string like this:
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906||443&&43||12&&122

The things between the numbers are 'and' or 'or' operators. I can find them using this regex:
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(\|\||&&)


How do I match and replace only, say, the 3rd match (in this case, '||')?

Bonus points if you can do it using javascript's string.replace function, but if not I should be able to figure it out from what you tell me.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Not sure you can do this and keep it scalable, to be honest. You can hardcode it, as follows:

.*(?:\|\||&&).*(?:\|\||&&).*(\|\||&&)

The ?: at the start of the parentheses tells the PCRE engine to not store those subpatterns so it'd only match the third one in this case.

At least, I think that should work.

You're probably better off writing some JS/PHP to split the string up into bits using the operators as delimiters, and then process them like that.


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Something like:

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$string =~ s/(\|\||&&)/--$instance?$&:'blah'/eg


works in perl. God knows if there are equivalents in PHP.


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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I'm no regex expert so wait and see if someone else weighs in, but I remember wanting to do similar things in the past and finding that they're just not capable of doing repetitions in the way you want them to.

Squirt wrote:
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$string =~ s/(\|\||&&)/--$instance?$&:'blah'/eg


works in perl. God knows if there are equivalents in PHP.

Which bit is it in that that tells it to only process the third one? Is it the -- ?


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Gazchap and I are working along similar lines but I'm apparently more bored at work than he ;)

Shame you didn't want the stuff between your delimiters as that's easy to explode a string to an array using a regexp.

Making this function grab the nth element is an exercise left to the reader.

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   function grim() {
      input = "906||443&&43||12&&122";

      re = /(\|\||\&\&)/g;
   
      loc = 0;

      while (loc > -1) {
         match = re(input);
         loc = re.lastIndex;
         if (loc == 0) {
            // not found
            break;
         }

         token = match[1];
         alert("found at " + loc + ": " + token);
      }
   }

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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What I wanted to do was change the nth && or || to it's opposite. I've done it in Javascript - it works, but it's ugly.
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    code = code.substr(2);
    carr = code.split(/(\|\||&&)/gi);
    if (carr[((count*2)-1)] == "||") {
        carr[((count*2)-1)] = "&&";
    } else {
        carr[((count*2)-1)] = "||";
    }
    code = carr.join("");

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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GazChap wrote:
I'm no regex expert so wait and see if someone else weighs in, but I remember wanting to do similar things in the past and finding that they're just not capable of doing repetitions in the way you want them to.

Squirt wrote:
Something like:

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$string =~ s/(\|\||&&)/--$instance?$&:'blah'/eg


works in perl. God knows if there are equivalents in PHP.

Which bit is it in that that tells it to only process the third one? Is it the -- ?



Ooops, you have to set $instance =3 somewhere above.


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Squirt wrote:
Ooops, you have to set $instance =3 somewhere above.


Executing code in regexps is simultaneously beautiful and hideous at the same time.

Just like the rest of Perl I guess :)

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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JamesOff wrote:
Shame you didn't want the stuff between your delimiters as that's easy to explode a string to an array using a regexp.

Ha, sorry, I did :)

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 14:24 
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Real nerds code in Brainfuck.

Hello World in Brainfuck:
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 14:42 
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Pfft. Regex's are for losers. What you want is nested substrings.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Pfft. Regex's are for losers. What you want is nested substrings.


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 15:08 
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Craster wrote:
Pfft. Regex's are for losers. What you want is nested substrings.

I'm not sure what I wanted is possible with substrings, because of the && or || split.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Grim... wrote:
I'm not sure what I wanted is possible with substrings, because of the && or || split.


Take that, you substring-using suckers!

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 0:39 
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Had to get help with the regex (I was *nearly* there), but this does the job:

Code:
function swapPipeAmpersand(str, n) {
   
   // Locate nth pipe/ampersand set and replace with placeholders
   var reg = new RegExp("^((?:[0-9]+[\\|&]{2}){" + (n-1) + "})([0-9]+)[\\|&]{2}");
   var out = str.replace(reg,"$1$2..");
      
   // Work out what the original string contained, and replace with opposite
   if (str.charAt(out.indexOf('.')) == '|') {
      return out.replace(/[.]/g, '&');
   } else {
      return out.replace(/[.]/g, '|');
   }
}

alert(swapPipeAmpersand("23||45||45||56||67", 4));


Since it's pretty much impossible to know exactly what it is that the regex has matched without iterating through all of the matches, the best I can do is replace the pipe/ampersand set with a placeholder (two full stops), then look at the original string at that position to work out what the function replaced in order to swap it. Splitting the string into an array is probably much faster.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:01 
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I'm pretty sure a problem like this is non-regular, as it requires a notion of memory over previous matches* and so can't be matched by a standard regular language.

ie: Do it GazChaps way or don't do it at all using a Regex. You're using a screwdriver for a hammer problem. You can smack the nail in with the blunt end but it'll hurt like hell to do so.

* memory as in things wot happened, rather than RAM.


edit: Easiest way is just to loop over the pattern you provided, and only do something on the third match. That's like what, to extra lines? And if you want to make it 20th instead of 3rd you just change one number.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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New to regex, I want to replace all characters in a string that are not numeric or are not a line feed character.

Something like [^0-9]\r

But not quite, as that only matches non numeric and a line feed (I think).

How do I use 'or' in regex?
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 17:37 
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([^0-9])|(\r) I think. You may not need the brackets in fact.

"|" is or IIRC


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 18:00 
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([^0-9])|(\r)
That means "all the characters that are anything other than a 0-9, OR are \r". That's not what you want to protect \r too.

[^0-9\r] is the pattern you want, I think. You can kuldge anything you want into square brackets like that. [a-zA-Z0-9] is a common pattern, for example.


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 18:35 
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Cheers guys, I'll try both of those on Monday.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Stupid Regex.

I'm trying to extract the RTW from the below phrase by selecting everything except that bit and replacing it with nothing:
123456-Mr Smith-RTW(27062013 150729).pdf

(^.*?)-(.*?)- seems to grab "123456-Mr Smith-"
\((.*)\).pdf grabs the "(27062013 150729).pdf" bit, but how can I combine these to grab both at the same time, when the RTW could be any combination of characters.

The first bit could be any characters, but the constants in this changing filename will be the two hyphens, and the datetime in parentheses plus .pdf

Or is it easier to just run the whole thing through a replacement function twice?

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 13:42 
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Mr Russell wrote:
Stupid Regex.

I'm trying to extract the RTW from the below phrase by selecting everything except that bit and replacing it with nothing:
123456-Mr Smith-RTW(27062013 150729).pdf

(^.*?)-(.*?)- seems to grab "123456-Mr Smith-"
\((.*)\).pdf grabs the "(27062013 150729).pdf" bit, but how can I combine these to grab both at the same time, when the RTW could be any combination of characters.

The first bit could be any characters, but the constants in this changing filename will be the two hyphens, and the datetime in parentheses plus .pdf

Or is it easier to just run the whole thing through a replacement function twice?


String split on "-" and take the right most one, then split on the ( and take the leftmost one. What're those quotes about using regex and having two problems, or everything being a nail?

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 14:00 
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Mr Russell wrote:
Or is it easier to just run the whole thing through a replacement function twice?

It's hard to say without some more examples of file names - is it always -AAA that you need? Or can it have numbers in, too? Can the length of that change? What language are you doing it in?

The "loosest" possible way to get those three characters is probably this:
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-(.{3})\(


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Grim... wrote:
Mr Russell wrote:
Or is it easier to just run the whole thing through a replacement function twice?

It's hard to say without some more examples of file names - is it always -AAA that you need? Or can it have numbers in, too? Can the length of that change? What language are you doing it in?

The "loosest" possible way to get those three characters is probably this:
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-(.{3})\(


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No, the 'bit I need' could be any length and any combination of characters.

The only constants are that it will be data hyphen data hyphen NEEDED BIT Brackets Data Brackets.pdf

Pod, I'm trying to run this through an Eval() function in ASPX so I can only use one line, otherwise I'd pre-process the lot using aspx.

I'll have a go with the fiddle, thanks both.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 15:11 
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Can the data have brackets or hyphens in?

If not, you need
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If so, you're fucked ;)

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Grim... wrote:
Can the data have brackets or hyphens in?

If not, you need
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-(.+)\(


If so, you're fucked ;)

Fortunately not.

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Grim... wrote:
Can the data have brackets or hyphens in?

If not, you need
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-(.+)\(


If so, you're fucked ;)

Ooh, so close...
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Code:
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
PostPosted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 15:26 
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Oh, okay:
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.*-(.+)\(


That's fine for double-barrelled surnames, too.

Or what Squirt said.

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Oh, okay:
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That's fine for double-barrelled surnames, too.
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In either of those situations, just pull out group 1.

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(^.*?)-(.*?)- [but not this bit] \((.*)\).pdf

I kind of need to combine the first and last, where the [but not this bit] can be anything (but not a hyphen or parenth)

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Hang on - do you want to find out what the bit before the bracket is, or remove it and glue what's left back together (ie. replace it with nothing)?

In other words, with
Code:
21321-Carrie Lzynch-RTW(24324 423423).pdf
should it return
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RTW
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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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I want to turn "123456-Mr Smith-RTW(28062013 141130).pdf" into "RTW"

This is my existing code with the above as PDFFilename:
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<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Regex.Replace(Eval("PDFFilename"), "\((.*)\).pdf", "")%>'></asp:Label>


...that replaces the data in the brackets at the end, including the brackets with nothing, and leaves "123456-Mr Smith-RTW"

I am now trying to get rid of the data hyphen data hyphen before that last bit of data to leave just "RTW" (or whatever string of characters rtw happens to be).

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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I am aware the inclusion of a Regexreplace routine may now complicate things, sorry for being unclear before.

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Take either mine or Squirt's regex, stick
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.*$
on the end and replace it with
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"$1"
rather than
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That might not be how ASP does it, but it'll be something like that.

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Lookaheads and behinds?

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This should do the trick:

Code:
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Regex.Replace(Eval("PDFFilename"), "^.*-(.+)\(.*$", "$1")%>'></asp:Label>

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Squirt wrote:
Lookaheads and behinds?

Code:
(?<=-)[^-]{3}(?=\()

Very close if I use Regex.Match instead of Replace, but only matches the anydata bit where it is three characters.

Grim... your
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<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Regex.Replace(Eval("PDFFilename"), "^.*-(.+)\(.*$", "$1")%>'></asp:Label>
seems to be spot on, thank you!

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I'm not exactly sure why, mind, as when I paste the regex bit into my regex tester it matches the whole string, but OK!

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Thanks to everyone else who melded their mind around this as well :)

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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Ahh, can the RTW it be any length?

Then
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(?<=-)[^-]+(?=\()


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 Post subject: Re: Regex Help
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Mr Russell wrote:
I'm not exactly sure why, mind, as when I paste the regex bit into my regex tester it matches the whole string, but OK!

The brackets around the .+ mark it out as being a 'group'. So we matched the whole thing, and replaced it with that group (using $1). If there were two groups the next one would be $2, and so on.

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Squirt wrote:
Use mine, not Grim...'s. Mine has question marks in.

Code:
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You are using the 'Ted' forum. Bill doesn't really exist any more. Bogus!
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RIP, Owen. RIP, MrC. RIP, Dimmers.

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