Hi Michael,
MA> But I resort to Unicon or Perl for the use of regular expressions at this
MA> point, as I'm a Rebol newby and find parsing in Rebol beyond my skills at
MA> this point.
Until you get up to speed on PARSE, FIND/ANY can often be used for
simpler pattern matching. I also did a quick little pattern matcher
similar to VB's Like operator; it isn't anything fancy, but I included
it below.
-- Gregg
REBOL [
Title: "VB Like Operator Module"
Date: 10-Sep-2003
Version: 0.0.3
File: %like.r
Author: "Gregg Irwin"
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purpose: {
The LIKE? function is a first crack at something like
VB's Like operator. i.e. a *very* simple RegEx engine. The
real purpose was to help me get acquainted with parse.
}
Comment: {
A hyphen (�) can appear either at the beginning (after an
exclamation point if one is used) or at the end of charlist
to match itself. In any other location, the hyphen is used to
identify a range of characters.
When a range of characters is specified, they must appear in
ascending sort order (from lowest to highest). [A-Z] is a valid
pattern, but [Z-A] is not.
The character sequence [] is considered a zero-length string
("").
* Zero or more characters
? Any single character
# Any single digit
[list] Any single char in list (character class)
[!list] Any single char not in list
Meta chars, except "]", can be used in character classes.
"]" can be used by itself, as a regular char, but not in a
character class.
}
History: [
0.0.1 [03-Sep-2001 "Initial Release." Gregg]
0.0.2 [19-Mar-2002 "Fixed negated char class syntax" Gregg]
0.0.3 [10-Sep-2003
{Rediscovered this and beefed up the char group syntax so it
matches the VB spec better. Still in progress though.}
{Renamed some things too.}
{Cleaned things up (a little) and reorganized.}
Gregg
]
]
]
vb-like-op: make object! [
any-char: complement charset ""
digit: charset [#"0" - #"9"]
non-digit: complement digit
any-single-digit: [1 digit]
any-single-char: 'skip ; [1 any-char]
;any-multi-char: [any any-char]
;any-multi-char-to: [any any-char to]
wild-chars: charset "*?![#"
non-wild-chars: complement wild-chars
valid-group-chars: complement charset "]"
to-next-real-char: 'thru
to-end: [to end]
expand-pattern: func [
{Convert a VB Like operator spec into a set of PARSE rules.}
pattern [string!]
/local plain-chars dig star any-one char-group emit tmp result
][
emit: func [arg][
; OK, this is ugly. If you put *[ in your pattern, it causes
; problems because * = thru (right now) and you can't say
; "thru bitset!" in a parse rule. So, what I do in that case
; is remove the thru and replace it with something I think
; will work.
either all [
not empty? result
'to-next-real-char = last result
bitset! = type? arg
][
change back tail result reduce ['any complement arg arg]
][
append result arg
]
]
plain-chars: [copy tmp some non-wild-chars (emit copy tmp)]
dig: ["#" (emit 'any-single-digit)]
star: ["*" (emit 'to-next-real-char)]
any-one: ["?" (emit 'any-single-char)]
char-group: [
"[" copy tmp some valid-group-chars "]"
(emit make-group-charset tmp)
]
result: copy []
parse/all pattern [
some [char-group | plain-chars | dig | star | any-one]
]
; If the last thing in our pattern is thru, it won't work so we
; remove the trailing thru and replace it with "to end".
if (last result) =? 'to-next-real-char [
change back tail result 'to-end
]
result
]
set 'like? func [
"Emulates the VB Like operator."
string [any-string!] "The string you want to check"
pattern [any-string!] "The pattern you want to check the string against"
][
parse/all string expand-pattern pattern
]
make-group-charset: func [
{Take a char-group spec and convert it to a charset.}
string
/local
add-group-char add-group-range dash non-dash
rules group-chars char char-1 char-2 comp result
][
add-group-char: func [char][
if not none? char [append first group-chars char]
]
add-group-range: func [char-1 char-2][
append group-chars reduce [to-char char-1 '- to-char char-2]
]
dash: charset "-"
non-dash: complement dash
rules: [
[copy char opt #"!" (comp: char)]
[copy char opt dash (add-group-char char)]
some [
copy char-1 non-dash dash copy char-2 non-dash
(add-group-range char-1 char-2)
| copy char non-dash (add-group-char char)
]
[copy char opt dash (add-group-char char)]
end
]
group-chars: reduce [copy ""]
parse string rules
;print mold group-chars
result: charset group-chars
either comp [complement result][result]
]
; "ABCa-z!012" in PARSE rules is ["ABC" #"a" - #"z" "!012"]
]
test: on
if test [
test-like: func [
str [string!]
pat [string!]
/expect expected
/show
/local result
][
;print ["Parse: " tab remold vb-like-op/expand-pattern pat]
result: like? str pat
if show [
print ["Str: " tab str]
print ["RegEx: " tab pat]
print ["Result:" tab result]
print ["Parse: " tab mold vb-like-op/expand-pattern pat]
prin newline
]
if all [expect result <> expected] [
print [
"^/TEST FAILED!^/"
tab str newline
tab pat newline
tab "Returned:" result newline
]
]
]
test-data: reduce [
"abc_()[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "abc*def?�[xyz]" true
"abc_defx" "abc*def[xyz]" true
"abc_defx" "abc?def[xyz]" true
"abc__defx" "abc??def[!xyz]" false
"abc__defx" "abc??def[xyz]" true
"abc_defx" {abc?def[!x-z]} false
"abc_defx" {abc?def[x-z]} true
"abc_defx" {abc?def[!x-z]} false
"abc_defx" {abc?def[x-z]} true
"abcdxxxxxx" "abc?*" true
"avbcvz" "a*z" true
"12345_xxx" "*_*" true
"filename.txtdfdf" "*.txt*" true
"abcdefg" "ab*f[ghi]" true
"]ab*&&&fg�?$^^^- `~�019["
"]ab[*]*f[ghi]�[?]?*`~[����]###[[]"
true
"]ab*&&&fg�?$^^^- `~�019["
"]ab[*]*f[ghi]�[?]?*^- ??![���]###[[]"
false
"Gregg 12340 Irwin" "* ####*" true
" 12340" "* ####*" true
"Gregg 123400" "* ####*" true
" 12340 Irwin" "* ####*" true
"Looking for [ in text"
"Looking for?[[]*"
true
"Looking for [ in text"
"*[[]*"
true
"Looking for ] in text"
"*[[]*"
false
]
foreach [str pat result] test-data [
test-like/expect str pat result ;/show
]
print "Tests complete."
halt
]
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