[Gambas-user] Re gular Expression Help

[Stefano Palmeri]

Il Tuesday 27 May 2008 18:17:23 Stefano Palmeri ha scritto:
> 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
>

or:

IF sOneDev LIKE "sd[a-z]" THEN BREAK 







> > 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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