Regex confusion
 

Hi everyone,
I'm just starting to use regex to do some pattern matching but the
syntax is a little confusing. I'm using some of
the on-line regex checkers, but they all fail the following test:

regex /\bTest\s*,/i
look for Test, (or test, etc.)
- result: failure

I can't see anything wrong. Can anyone suggest whats amiss?

TIA

Paul

Re: Regex confusion
 

Hi,

You look to put a "," and you do not need.
Regex looks like that: /regex/ , or !regex! or #regex# , etc...
If you want to match the word "test", you juste have to put /\btest\b/
to match it.

The final option "i" comes after the separation :
/\btest\b/i

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On 19 fév, 16:55, trashman.horli...@btinternet.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm just starting to use regex to do some pattern matching but the
> syntax is a little confusing. I'm using some of
> the on-line regex checkers, but they all fail the following test:
>
> regex /\bTest\s*,/i
> look for Test, (or test, etc.)
> - result: failure
>
> I can't see anything wrong. Can anyone suggest whats amiss?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul

Re: Regex confusion
 

On 19 Feb, 16:07, "tfe" <tfeser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You look to put a "," and you do not need.
> Regex looks like that: /regex/ , or !regex! or #regex# , etc...
> If you want to match the word "test", you juste have to put /\btest\b/
> to match it.
>
> The final option "i" comes after the separation :
> /\btest\b/i
>
> --
> tfehttp://tfeserver.be
>
> On 19 fév, 16:55, trashman.horli...@btinternet.com wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > I'm just starting to use regex to do some pattern matching but the
> > syntax is a little confusing. I'm using some of
> > the on-line regex checkers, but they all fail the following test:
>
> > regex /\bTest\s*,/i
> > look for Test, (or test, etc.)
> > - result: failure
>
> > I can't see anything wrong. Can anyone suggest whats amiss?
>
> > TIA
>
> > Paul- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


Thanks mate. I do actually need the "," to be a part of the regex
string.

By the way, looking at some examples of regex, I see constructs like
this:
[_\W]{0,3}
Isn't this just the same as [\w\W]{0,3} ?

Re: Regex confusion
 

Sorry, got confused. What I meant to say was: I am trying to construct
a regex that will check for
"test," (not the quotes)
"Test,"
"Test ,"
"test ,"
"Test ,"
plus any combination of upper and lower cases, plus whitespace between
"test" and ","

TIA

Paul

Re: Regex confusion
 

On Feb 19, 10:55 am, trashman.horli...@btinternet.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm just starting to use regex to do some pattern matching but the
> syntax is a little confusing. I'm using some of
> the on-line regex checkers, but they all fail the following test:
>
> regex /\bTest\s*,/i
> look for Test, (or test, etc.)
> - result: failure
>
> I can't see anything wrong. Can anyone suggest whats amiss?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul

Post actual code & sample input.
Such as:

use strict;
use warnings;

while (<DATA>)
{
chomp();
if ( /\bTest\s*,/i )
{
print "MATCHED: >>$_<<\n";
}
else
{
print "NOT MATCHED: >>$_<<\n";
}
}

__DATA__
test,
Test,
Test ,
test ,
Test ,

Ken

Re: Regex confusion
 

trashman.horlicks@btinternet.com wrote:
>
> By the way, looking at some examples of regex, I see constructs like
> this:
> [_\W]{0,3}
> Isn't this just the same as [\w\W]{0,3} ?

No. [_\W] says match an underscore or a non-word character. You could do the
same thing with the POSIX character class [^[:alnum:]].

[\w\W] matches *any* character, as would [\s\S] or [\d\D] or (?s:.).




John
--
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Re: Regex confusion
 

trashman.horlicks@btinternet.com <trashman.horlicks@btinternet.com> wrote:

> I'm just starting to use regex to do some pattern matching


You need *two* pieces of information to analyse why a pattern is
matching or not.

You need the regular expression, and you need the string that the
regular expression is to be matched against.


> regex /\bTest\s*,/i


There is the regular expression.


> I can't see anything wrong.


Neither can we, because we cannot see what is in $_


> Can anyone suggest whats amiss?


Probably the string does not match the pattern somehow. (heh)


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