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TCL regexp Posted by Arshad (Arshad), 27 November 2007 regexp [0-9]* hello returns SUCCESS, which I thought will match only digits and not Alpha. Am I missing on something? Posted by Arshad (Arshad), 27 November 2007 Actually I have grammer in ABNF format for a Digit-pattern- Digit-pattern = 1*( characterPosition [RepeatCount ] ) Digit-pattern = 1*( characterPosition [RepeatCount ] ) characterPosition = character / characterSet / characterInvSet characterSet = "[" 1*digitSetList "]" characterInvSet = "[" "^" 1*digitSetList "]" digitSetList = DIGIT [ "-" DIGIT ] character = DIGIT / "*" / "#" / "x" / "X" RepeatCount = "{" RepeatRange "}" RepeatRange = Count / ( Count "," Count ) Count = 1*DIGIT which I want to convert to a regexp Pattern, I worked out onto this... Digit-Pattern (([0-9*#xX]*)|(\[[0-9]*[-0-9]*\])|(\[\^[0-9]*[-0-9]*\]))*({[0-9]+[,]?[0-9]*}) characterPosition ([0-9*#xX]*)|(\[[0-9]*[-0-9]*\])|(\[\^[0-9]*[-0-9]*\]) CharacterSet \[[0-9]*[-0-9]*\] CharacterInvList \[\^[0-9]*[-0-9]*\] digitSeList [0-9]*[-0-9]* character [0-9*#xX]+ RepeatCount {[0-9]+[,]?[0-9]*} RepeatRange [0-9]+[,]?[0-9]* Count [0-9]* The problem is that even the alphabets are matching "characterPosition" which should not happen. so 123{3} must atch the Digit-Pattern but abc{3} must not. Posted by Arshad (Arshad), 27 November 2007 Need urgent help...if someone can help me out with this one... Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 28 November 2007 on 11/27/07 at 15:21:47, Arshad wrote:
You are asking if the string hello contains zero or more digits, which it does. In fact any string at all contains zero or more digits ... so will match your regular expression. Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 28 November 2007 on 11/27/07 at 17:09:39, Arshad wrote:
You'll find that our "terms of reference" for this forum say that we'll look to provide guidance within 24 hours. If your requirement is so urgent that you need to start nagging for a quick answer within just 2 hours, you'll be far better placed taking a commercial support service on board. Posted by Arshad (Arshad), 28 November 2007 But I thought it will match numbers from 0-9 only and not alphabets from a-z and A-Z, which it does.Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 28 November 2007 on 11/28/07 at 08:27:31, Arshad wrote:
regexp [0-9]* hello looks for a string of zero or more digits within the word "hello". As there are zero digits between each of the pairs of characters - it matches many times over ... h - e - l - l - no digits - o You may want anchors on your regular expression. The bestway to learn these regular expressions is here. This page is a thread posted to the opentalk forum
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