Re: Help simplify complex regexp needing positive lookahead and reluctant quantifers

david.karr_at_wamu.net
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: 24 Mar 2005 09:10:47 -0800

Ok, the difference between our two was that my sample has "\r\n" for
eols. Once I changed my pattern to check for that explicitly, I get
similar output. I tried some variations with "$" and "(?m)", but it
only got past this if I specifically used "\r\n".

However, now I have to go deeper into this, and the current expression
doesn't quite do what I need.

What I really need to capture in individual groups would be the
following (each group surrounded by brackets):

[YYY=]
[D/23333333
xxxxxxxxxxxx
yyyyyyyyyyyy]
[ZZZ=]
[gggggggggggg]
[AAA=]
[hhhhhhhhhh
jjjjjjjjjjj
kkkkkkkkkkk]

Note that I've removed the initial spaces and dashes. That's my end
state, but I can work to that step by step.

When my code steps through all the groups it found, it finds this:

---------------
group[ YYY=D/23333333
 -xxxxxxxxxxxx
 -yyyyyyyyyyyy
 ZZZ=gggggggggggg
 AAA=hhhhhhhhhh
 -jjjjjjjjjjj
 -kkkkkkkkkkk
]
group[AAA=]
group[hhhhhhhhhh
 -jjjjjjjjjjj
 -kkkkkkkkkkk
]
---------------

I don't care about the first group, because that surrounds all of the
subrecords. I would have hoped that the next group would be "YYY=",
followed by the group with its associated data, and so on.

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