Still beating my head against the wall due to my lack of knowledge about the PCRE methods and properties... Because of this, I have progressed not only very slowly but also -- I fell -- in a very inelegant way. So perhaps you guys who are more acquainted with PCRE might be able to hint me on a better solution.
I want to search a long string that can contain a sentence, a paragraph or even a full text. I wanna find and isolate every word it contains. A word is defined as any sequence of alphabetic characters followed by a non-alphatetic character. The sample code bellow does work, but I don't feel it is as elegant and as fast as it could and should be. Especially the way I am traversing the string from the beginning to the end. It looks awkward and slow. There must be a more efficient way, like working only with offsets and lengths instead of copying the string again and again. Dim Alphabetics as string "abc...zyzABC...ZYZ" Dim re as RegExp Dim matches as String [] Dim RawText as String re.Compile("([" & Alphabetics & "]+?)([^" & Alphabetics & "]+)", RegExp.utf8) RawText = "abc12345def ghi jklm mno p1" Do While RawText re.Exec(RawText) matches.add(re[1].text) RawText = String.Mid(RawText, String.Len(re.text) + 1) Loop For i = 0 To matches.Count - 1 Print matches[i] Next Above code correctly finds "abc, def, ghi, jlkm, mno, p". But the tricks I have used are cumbersome (like advancing with string.mid() and resorting to re[1].text and re.text. -- Fernando Cabral Blogue: http://fernandocabral.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/fjcabral e-mail: fernandojosecab...@gmail.com Facebook: f...@fcabral.com.br Telegram: +55 (37) 99988-8868 Wickr ID: fernandocabral WhatsApp: +55 (37) 99988-8868 Skype: fernandojosecabral Telefone fixo: +55 (37) 3521-2183 Telefone celular: +55 (37) 99988-8868 Enquanto houver no mundo uma só pessoa sem casa ou sem alimentos, nenhum político ou cientista poderá se gabar de nada. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user