On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:53:20PM -0600, Shaun Cummins wrote:
> I would like to use a variable within a regular expression counter. I
> tried the following, but it gave me a syntax error:
>
> :syntax region Keyword start="^\w\+\s\+\z(\d\+\)"
> end=#\(\s*\(".\+"\|'.\+'\).*\n\)\{\z1\}#
>
> If I replace \z1 with 1 or some other number it works fine. I also
> tried something like \{,20\} but then it will only do a greedy match
> on the first line and skip the rest.
>
> The region I'm trying to match is:
>
> PRNEXCLUDED 0
>
> or
>
> SERVER 1 '0'
>
> or
>
> STALIST 6
> "STA1" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
> "STA2" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
> "STA3" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
> "STA4" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
> "STA5" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
> "STA6" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shaun
I do not think I can answer this, and there may not be a way to do
what you want, but I want to clarify the question. Is your intention to
match the "STALIST 6" with the start pattern and, since it ends in " 6",
match the next 6 lines with the end pattern?
BTW, do you realize that in your end pattern, ".\+" will match all
of
"STA1" "n" "" "" "" "" "" ""
and .* will then match nothing?
HTH --Benji Fisher
