[Gambas-user] Re gular Expression Help

[Stefano Palmeri]

Il Tuesday 27 May 2008 17:22:35 hinchy ha scritto:
> Yeah I thought about doing something like that, the thing is though, I
> won't always know how long the first word is. With the regex I can match
> until the first white space. Is there a way of doing that with text
> splitting? If so great. If not is there anywhere you could suggest I look
> for example regex implementation in gambas?
>
> Thanks again.

I don't understand your problem (my fault). Here's a way to 
extracy only "sda".

  DIM sStr, sOneDev AS String
  
  SHELL "ls /dev | grep [sh]d[a-z]" TO sStr
  
  FOR EACH sOneDev IN Split(sStr, "\n")
    
    IF sOneDev = "sda" THEN BREAK 
  
  NEXT 
  
  PRINT sOneDev

Bye



>
> M0E Lnx wrote:
> > why not just do some text splitting to get what you need?
> >
> > If you have "sda1" and you only want "sda" out of that... you should
> > be able to go with Newstring=left(sStr, 3)
> >
> > On 5/27/08, hinchy <eoinhinchy at ...626...> wrote:
> >>  keywords: regex, Regular Expression, regexp, pcre
> >>
> >>  Hi guys,
> >>
> >>  I've been struggling with the pcre component for a couple of days now.
> >> I'm
> >>  running the command:
> >>  SHELL "ls /dev | grep [sh]d[a-z]" TO sStr
> >>
> >>  This will return something along the lines of:
> >>  sda
> >>  sda1
> >>  sda2
> >>
> >>  I then want to run the regular expression ^[^\s]*+ against sStr to
> >> return
> >>  sda for saving in a different string but I can't for the life of my
> >> figure
> >>  it out.
> >>  Any ideas? I'm sure it's quite simple I just can't get it together.
> >>  Thanks,
> >>  Eoin
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> >>
> >>
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