> On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 00:14 +0200, tobias wrote: > > hi, > > > > i have a problem with regular expressions: i'm not very good in using > > them. i want to determine the comment string in a gambas comment with > > gb.pcre and been sitting down for 3 hours now, totally frustrated... > > i thought, i have to search for the first ' apostrophe from the left > > which isn't between "". i have experimented with the ugliest things but > > nothing worked properly. > > i used these lines to test: > > > > Print "'" '"'" > > Print "text" 'comment > > and the line of RegExp.Compile(???) itself > > > > of course, they should give > > "'" > > comment > > (nothing) > > > > i got a solution that matched the first two ones correctly but no chance > > for the regexp itself in line 3 (i always got something after the > > apostrophe in the regexp)... > > > > i didn't get very far without getting wrong results, so i think there's > > no need to post my tries > > i would be very glad if someone more experienced could help me. > > > > regards, > > tobi > > I'm not sure whether you are trying to learn regexp patterns or parse a > gambas sourcecode line, but if the second then this is how I do it. > > > ' Gambas module file > > Public Sub Main() > Dim sSourceCode As String ' The original source line > Dim sCode As String ' The part of the source line that is code > Dim sComment As String ' The part of the source line that is comment > Dim aComment As New String[] > > sSourceCode = " While surname<>\"O'Reilly\" or surname<>\"O'Malley\" Or > surname <> \"O'Reilly-O'Malley\" '' Loop around looking for the > irishman called \"O'Reilly\", \"O'Malley\" or \"O'Reilly-O'Malley\"" > > Print "Original===========" > Print sSourceCode > > aComment = Split(sSourceCode, "'", "\"", False, True) > > Print "Parsed===========" > Print aComment.Join("\n") > > sCode = Trim(aComment[0]) > aComment.Delete(0) > sComment = Trim(aComment.Join("'")) > > Print "Code part===========" > Print sCode > Print "Comment part===========" > Print sComment > > End > > > regards > Bruce >
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