just bumping this one up there, it is critical for my app to do this and I
see no way past it. anybody ever needed to find content with regex that
contained [] characters?
thanks,
d.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Derrick Anderson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hey i'm not a regex pro by far which is why i asked if my regex was wrong-
> but taking your suggestion it still does not work- not sure why. i've used
> the RegExr air app to test this and the simplest i can get it is new
> RegExp("\[[^]*\]","igm");
>
> this works when {} are used but not when [] is used, you can see in the
> example below- it looks like escaping the [] is affecting the match
> (although it works fine in the regex test tool).
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> layout="absolute">
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^]*\]","igm");
> private var mergeRE2:RegExp = new RegExp("{[^]*}","igm");
>
> public function runSquareBracketTest():void
> {
> var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE);
> resultString.text = response.toString();
> }
>
> public function runCurlyBracketTest():void
> {
> var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE2);
> resultString.text = response.toString();
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> <mx:VBox>
> <mx:TextArea id="subjectString" width="400" height="200">
> <mx:text>
> <![CDATA[<strong>[Employee First Name] </strong>
> <strong>{Employee Last Name} </strong>]]>
> </mx:text>
> </mx:TextArea>
> <mx:TextArea id="resultString" width="400" height="200" />
> <mx:Button click="runSquareBracketTest();" label="Get first name."
> />
> <mx:Button click="runCurlyBracketTest();" label="Get last name."
> />
> </mx:VBox>
> </mx:Application>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm confused... why isn't your pattern something like "\[.*]\]" ?
> > What's going on with the ^ and the > ? What is supposed to match against
> > letters like E, m, p, l, etc.?
> >
> >
> >
> > Gordon Smith
> >
> > Adobe Flex SDK Team
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> > Behalf Of *Derrick Anderson
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:23 PM
> > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] RegExp searching for [ and ], are they
> > reserved?
> >
> >
> >
> > i had tried escaping them, below i've pasted an example of my problem- 2
> > samples: 1 looking for [Employee First Name] and one looking for {Employee
> > First Name} (curly braces vs square braces) and even though the brackets
> > are escaped, the regex with [ and ] only return the ending ]. do i have the
> > regex wrong?
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> > layout="absolute">
> > <mx:Script>
> > <![CDATA[
> > private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^>]*?\]","igm");
> > private var mergeRE2:RegExp = new RegExp("{[^>]*?}","igm");
> >
> > public function runSquareBracketTest():void
> > {
> > var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE);
> > resultString.text = response.toString();
> > }
> >
> > public function runCurlyBracketTest():void
> > {
> > var response:Array =
> > subjectString.text.match(mergeRE2);
> > resultString.text = response.toString();
> > }
> > ]]>
> > </mx:Script>
> >
> > <mx:VBox>
> > <mx:TextArea id="subjectString" width="400" height="200">
> > <mx:text>
> > <![CDATA[<strong>[Employee First Name] </strong>
> > <strong>{Employee Last Name} </strong>]]>
> > </mx:text>
> > </mx:TextArea>
> > <mx:TextArea id="resultString" width="400" height="200" />
> > <mx:Button click="runSquareBracketTest();" label="Get first
> > name." />
> > <mx:Button click="runCurlyBracketTest();" label="Get last name."
> > />
> > </mx:VBox>
> > </mx:Application>
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [ and ] are metacharacters in RegExp patterns. For example, "[abc]"
> > matches either "a", or 'b" or "c". To prevent this interpretation, escape
> > them with a backslash.
> >
> >
> >
> > Gordon Smith
> >
> > Adobe Flex SDK Team
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> > Behalf Of *Derrick Anderson
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:49 PM
> > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > *Subject:* [flexcoders] RegExp searching for [ and ], are they reserved?
> >
> >
> >
> > hey all,
> >
> > i'm trying to do a replace on a string and replace anything in brackets
> > with something else.
> >
> > so [this] word would get replaced, however in the regex tester at
> > gskinner this works fine (it's flex based regex test tool) but in my local
> > code- i always get unexpected results when my regex expression has brackets
> > in it.
> >
> > private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^>]*?]","igm");
> >
> > is there another escape character i need to use, why does flash have a
> > problem searching for [ and ] in regex?
> >
> > thanks,
> > d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
