Home Accessibility Courses Twitter The Mouth Facebook Resources Site Map About Us Contact
 
For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Regular Expression Substitution - Tcl

regexp matches regular expressions in TCL, and it will return the latest match into a series of variables if you specify their names. regsub matches and replaces... not quite such a common requirement, and perhaps something I haven't blogged about in the past.

  set newstory [regsub blue $original grey]
Take the string from $original, replace the first occurrence of blue with grey and return the resulting string - which I have saved into a variable called new story

I can replace all occurrences of blue using the -all option:
  set newstory [regsub -all blue $original grey]

and I can use part of the incoming search as part of the outgoing string too. In this example:
  set newstory [regsub -all {bl(\S+)} $original br\\1]
I have taken all words with "bl" in them and replaces the bl and the rest of the word with br and the rest of the word as it was incoming. Note the capture using round brackets, and the back reference on output to \\1 for the first captured set of brackets. This example changes:
  It was a clear blue day and he blew into her blue eyes
into
  It was a clear brue day and he brew into her brue eyes

Full example in source code [here]

As taught on last week's Learning to program in Tcl course. This is a public course which runs every few months; the recent one was the final run for 2013, but you can find future dates for 2014 and beyond [here] on our web site.

(written 2013-11-12, updated 2013-11-16)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
T205 - Tcl/Tk - String Handling in Tcl
  [404] How to check that a string contains a number in Tcl - (2005-08-06)
  [779] The fragility of pancakes - and better structures - (2006-06-26)
  [943] Matching within multiline strings, and ignoring case in regular expressions - (2006-11-25)
  [1403] Square Bracket protection in Tcl - (2007-10-23)
  [1410] Tcl / regsub - changing a string and using interesting bits - (2007-10-27)
  [1601] Replacing the last comma with an and - (2008-04-04)
  [2472] split and join in tcl and expect - (2009-10-23)
  [3192] Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats - (2011-03-04)
  [3285] Extracting data from a string / line from file - Tcl - (2011-05-10)
  [3576] Tcl - apparently odd behaviour of string trimleft - (2012-01-13)
  [4454] Everything is a string - even a list - (2015-03-11)
  [4455] Working out distance between places, using OS grid references and a program in Tcl - (2015-03-11)

T247 - Tcl/Tk - Advanced Regular Expressions
  [1195] Regular Express Primer - (2007-05-20)
  [1305] Regular expressions made easy - building from components - (2007-08-16)
  [1336] Ignore case in Regular Expression - (2007-09-08)
  [1412] Sparse and Greedy matching - Tcl 8.4 - (2007-10-27)
  [1613] Regular expression for 6 digits OR 25 digits - (2008-04-16)


Back to
With the Shpigs and Donkeys
Previous and next
or
Horse's mouth home
Forward to
Writing the perfect program in Tcl?
Some other Articles
Lists in Tcl - fundamentals in a commented source code example
Tcl + Tk (Wish) - an introduction and revision example
Exception handling in Tcl
Writing the perfect program in Tcl?
Regular Expression Substitution - Tcl
With the Shpigs and Donkeys
A weekend away - Four in a Bed returns to Happy Donkey Hill
Excellent Railfuture conference, but some setup lessons
Looking to the future at Melksham Station
Endorsed Perl, Python and PHP training - Tcl, Lua, Ruby and C too!
4759 posts, page by page
Link to page ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 at 50 posts per page


This is a page archived from The Horse's Mouth at http://www.wellho.net/horse/ - the diary and writings of Graham Ellis. Every attempt was made to provide current information at the time the page was written, but things do move forward in our business - new software releases, price changes, new techniques. Please check back via our main site for current courses, prices, versions, etc - any mention of a price in "The Horse's Mouth" cannot be taken as an offer to supply at that price.

Link to Ezine home page (for reading).
Link to Blogging home page (to add comments).

You can Add a comment or ranking to this page

© WELL HOUSE CONSULTANTS LTD., 2024: 48 Spa Road • Melksham, Wiltshire • United Kingdom • SN12 7NY
PH: 01144 1225 708225 • EMAIL: info@wellho.net • WEB: http://www.wellho.net • SKYPE: wellho

PAGE: http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4205_Reg ... n-Tcl.html • PAGE BUILT: Sun Oct 11 16:07:41 2020 • BUILD SYSTEM: JelliaJamb