[Gambas-user] Multiline RegExp [slightly OT]

[Demosthenes Koptsis]

sorry but i dont understand where is the patent problem.

There are many regexp which "recognize data" such emails. 
So i think here is not the problem.
See for example
http://regexlib.com/Search.aspx?k=email&c=-1&m=-1&ps=20


If you mean the @yahoo.com emails this is an example.

i can change it like 
user1 at ...2625...
user2 at ...2625...
user3 at ...2625...
user4 at ...2625...

Is it ok now?

On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 12:10 +0200, Caveat wrote:
> I hope you realise that the work you're doing may result in you
> infringing Apple's patent:
> 
> U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an
> action on a structure in computer-generated data" (in its complaint,
> Apple provides examples such as the recognition of "phone numbers,
> post-office addresses and dates" and the ability to perform "related
> actions with that data"; one example is that "the system may receive
> data that includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in
> response to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the
> user the choice of making a phone call to the number")
> 
> This brings home to me just how broken the patent system is!
> I hope more and more of us programmers start to realise it and do
> whatever we can to fight against it.  I refused to submit anything for
> patenting at my last employer, despite their continued efforts to bribe
> and encourage us to patent anything and everything that could be
> remotely considered patentable.
> 
> If you were to make your program commercially available, and offered the
> user the possibility to (for example) send a mail to one of the
> addresses you identified in the textarea, you would (according to Apple)
> by guilty of patent infringement.  No matter that you've done all the
> hard work yourself, that you haven't been near any of Apple's code for
> doing this...
> 
> [Sorry to interrupt with this slightly off-topic rant!]
> 
> Kind regards,
> Caveat
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:34 +0300, Demosthenes Koptsis wrote:
> > i used also Multiline
> > http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.pcre/regexp/multiline?v3
> > 
> > and DotAll
> > http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.pcre/regexp/dotall?v3
> > 
> > with this code
> > 
> > -------------------------
> > ' Gambas class file
> > 
> > Private sRegExp As Regexp
> > 
> > Public Sub Form_Open()
> > 
> >   Me.Center
> > 
> > End
> > 
> > Public Sub btnMatch_Click()
> > 
> >   txtResults.Clear
> >   
> >   If IsNull(txtPattern.Text) Or IsNull(txtSubject.Text) Then Return
> >   
> >   sRegExp = New Regexp(txtSubject.Text, txtPattern.Text, 4)
> >   
> >   If sRegExp.Offset = -1 Then Return
> >   
> >   txtResults.Text = sRegExp.Text
> > 
> > End
> > -------------------------
> > 
> > 1) The Subject of RegExp is:
> > 
> > Here is an email dimos at ...146... and text continues
> > Here is an email kostas at ...146... and text continues
> > Here is an email petros at ...146... and text continues
> > Here is an email paul at ...146... and text continues
> > 
> > 2) The Pattern i use is:
> > (?i)\b[a-z0-9._%\-]+@[a-z0-9._%\-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b
> > 
> > 3) The result is only one email:
> > dimos at ...146...
> > 
> > and not the rest of them.
> > 
> > 4) if i convert this pattern to grep syntax in terminal, grep gives all
> > 4 emails. i want to implement a grep like funtcion with Gambas3
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 12:45 +1000, Ian Haywood wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Bruce Bruen <bbruen at ...2308...> wrote:
> > > > regexp only (ever) works on a line by line basis
> > > by default yes, but:
> > > http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.pcre/regexp/dotall
> > > 
> > > this makes the . cover newlines, so a regexp can span multiple lines
> > > in the string.
> > > 
> > > Ian
> > > 
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Regards,
Demosthenes Koptsis.