each line separately? This way you do not need to have such a highly
complicated RegEx. You can make it much more simple and a little bit
more flexible. Not to mention easier to maintain. (i.e. two separate
regular expressions or more)
<cfscript>
email = emailFromServer; // focused down to the body content only
n = listlen(email,chr(13) & chr(32));
output = arraynew(1);
output[1] = structnew();
a = arraynew(2);
a[1][1] = "RegEx";
a[1][2] = "description";
a[2][1] = "RegEx";
a[2][2] = "productnumber";
nn = arraylen(a); // regex count
nnn = 1; // record count
c = 0; // field count
for (i=1:i LTE n;i=i+1) {
currentitem = listgetat(email,i,chr(13) & chr(32));
for (ii=1;ii LTE nn;ii=ii+1) {
if (refind(a[i][1],currentitem)) {
output[nnn]['#a[i][2]#'] = trim(currentitem);
if (c GT 5) {
c = 0;
nnn = nnn + 1;
output[nnn] = structnew();
} else {
c = c +1;
}
}
}
}
</cfscript>
heh I went a little crazy here but I pretty sure this would work. Any
future changes on what each feild would hold would be easy to change.
(beware I did not test it)
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:23:04 -0400
Subject: RE: regexp help
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You can get the first and second lines based on a new line delimited list
and you can get the items in the second line using a space delimited list. I
just like to be specific when parsing data from a source like email. My
preference is to pop 2 messages, save the first in a DB (raw) and use the
second as a flag to rerun the page. Once all the mail is down and stored in
the DB (one at a time, there's a reason), I have a second process parse each
message in the tightest way possible. I'm paranoid (as all programmers
should be) about data from outside sources and I want to be 100% sure of
what I'm getting and how. If there's a problem, then I want to know exactly
what's up.
_____
Why don;t you just go through the text as a list with CR as the
delimiter? This way you can have much more focused regular
expressions.
Just a thought,
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:49:48 -0400
Subject: RE: regexp help
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Really fast (Using the multi-line move of CFMX)
^([^#chr(13)#]+)[[:space:]]+([0-9]+)[[:space:]]+([0-9]+)[[:space:]]+([0-9]{2
}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4})[[:space:]]+(USD)?[[:space:]]*([0-9.]+)$
_____
From: chris porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 4:41 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: regexp help
and one last time....
DATA:
Product Name
Product Number Qty Est. Ship Date Your Ext.
Price
[dashed go here all the way across PITA email parser]
description of some item1
0344437 1 03/12/2004 USD
335.75
another description of some item1
0344734 1 03/12/2004 USD
335.75
and one last description of some item
0433447 1 03/12/2004 USD
335.75
part i need parsed by a regex
"description of some item1
0344437 1 03/12/2004 USD
335.75"
current REGEX:
([0-9]+)[ ]+([0-9]+)[ ]+([^ ]+)[ ]+([A-Z]{3})[ ]+([0-9.]+)
that regex matches everything on the 2nd line correctly, but nothing i add
to the beginning will match the first line. any thoughts?
Thanks!
-Chris________________________________
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