Re: regexp again :( i am about to explode.....

On Feb 9, 10:23 am, Glenn Jackman <gle...@xxxxxx> wrote:
At 2007-02-09 08:58AM, "SuNnY" wrote:

this is what i have in my code..

set Pattern {\mport #[0x0-9a-fA-F]}

You might want to use {\mport #(?:0[xX])?[[:xdigit:]]+}

puts $Pattern
foreach Str [fileutil::grep $Pattern [fileutil::find $RootDir
{string match *.inform}]] { ;#<====== this works fine, as Str has
all those lines where $Pattern occurs.
puts "$Str" ;#<==== Example of the problem
port #fa56 lets see it through <===content of single line file

set patMat [lsearch -exact -inline -all -regexp $Str {[port[ ]+[\#]
[a-fA-F0-9]+]}] ;#<====== works absolutely the way i want it to
when tried at wish console

doesnt match anything when tried to run the script. $patMat its empty.

You want just this:
set patMat [regexp $Pattern $Str]

$Str is a string, not a list[*], so don't use list commands
(i.e. lsearch) on it.

([*] not _necessarily_ a list)

Why are you using {[port[ ]+[\#][a-fA-F0-9]+]} instead of $Pattern?
-------------------^------------------------^
You have too many brackets there.

If $Str eq "Example of the problem port #fa56 lets see it thorugh"
then essentially your lsearch command is looking for the pattern
{port #[[:xdigit:]] in the list
{{Example} {of} {the} {problem} {port} {#fa56} {...}}

None of the elements of that list contain a space character, so the
pattern will not be matched.

***its definitely matching "port#af56" when i write set
patMat[lsearch.............-regexp $Str {[port#[a-fA-F0-9]+]}]

I don't doubt it. Because your pattern is surrounded by square brackets,
you're really looking for any words in the list that contain any of
these characters:
][+#0123456789ABCDEFabcdefoprt
which will match "Example", "of", "the", "problem", "port", and "#fa56".

You really need to learn about regular expressions. You can't just
throw brackets into a pattern hoping it will magically start working.

--
Glenn Jackman
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." -- Dave Barry


Just checking, but are you trying to match more than one space or
whitespace character? In that case, use \s+ (for one or more
whitespace characters) or \s* (for zero or more whitespace
characters).

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