Re: Regex replacement item for entire line?

[David Rostenne]

I was hoping for an alternative to the & in the replacement strung that means 
‘entire source line’ but this works perfectly.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Dave

> On 2-October-2019, at 7:45 AM, ThePorgie  wrote:
> 
> Would something like this be what you're looking for?
> 
> .+?/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).* 
> 
> This will give you the same result with your replacement string.
> 
> \3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & 
> 
> The ".+?" tells the expression to find everything till the rest of the 
> expression that remains matches. If anything is off in the rest of the 
> expression it won't find a result in the string being searched.
> 
> Is that what you're looking for?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 2:05:05 PM UTC-4, Dave R wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> I have a regex that takes a url apart and makes me a csv of the components: 
> 
> Regex: 
> http://ftp\.newedinburgh\.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).*
>  
> 
> and the replacement: 
> \3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & 
> 
> which gives, for example: 
> April 1976, NEN PDF, 1976/04/01, 
> http://ftp.newedinburgh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1976_04-April-New-Edinburgh-News_web.pdf
>  
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way to leave the http…2019 out of the regex and, 
> instead of the & (which matches entire regex selection) in the replacement, 
> use something else to represent the entire source line. 
> 
> As you can see i’ve found a solution.. but I am always curious to see if 
> there is a simpler way. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Dave
> 
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Re: Regex replacement item for entire line?

[ThePorgie]

Would something like this be what you're looking for?

.+?/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).* 

This will give you the same result with your replacement string.

\3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & 

The ".+?" tells the expression to find everything till the rest of the 
expression that remains matches. If anything is off in the rest of the 
expression it won't find a result in the string being searched.

Is that what you're looking for?


On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 2:05:05 PM UTC-4, Dave R wrote:
>
> Hi folks, 
>
> I have a regex that takes a url apart and makes me a csv of the 
> components: 
>
> Regex: 
> http://ftp\.newedinburgh\.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/[019]+/([0-9]+)[_.]([0-9]+)-([a-zA-Z]+).*
>  
>
>
> and the replacement: 
> \3 \1, NEN PDF, \1/\2/01, & 
>
> which gives, for example: 
> April 1976, NEN PDF, 1976/04/01, 
> http://ftp.newedinburgh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1976_04-April-New-Edinburgh-News_web.pdf
>  
>
> I am wondering if there is a way to leave the http…2019 out of the regex 
> and, instead of the & (which matches entire regex selection) in the 
> replacement, use something else to represent the entire source line. 
>
> As you can see i’ve found a solution.. but I am always curious to see if 
> there is a simpler way. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Dave

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