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Using both literals and variables in regexp

Posted by tclnewbee (tclnewbee), 19 July 2004

Hi,
Lets say :
set str "sgh 567"

I'm able to find patterns using regexp as below:
  regexp -indices {[[:space:]]} $str res

 and i'm also able to find like:
set ptr 567
regexp -indices "$ptr" $str res

But I want a mixture of both, something like:
regexp -indices {[[:space:]]*("$ptr")}

how do I combine the two.

Thanks. I really need it urgently.

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 19 July 2004
You need to double quote the regular expression and not enclose it in { and } - since variables starting with $ are expanded withing " and " but not within { and }.

Then you need to backslash protect other special characters such as [ and ] as they are going to be performed in double quotes.

Here's an example of the sort of thing you might end up with:

     regexp "\[\[:space\]\]$demo"  $incoming

Look in $incoming for a space followed by whatever's in $demo



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