[Omaha.pm] regex gurus

[Dave Burchell]

Ok, a good strategy might be to break it up by the ( and ) characters first,
then further process the parts:

@part = split(/[()]/, $condstring);

This gives you a "shallow parse", which may or may not be a useful starting
point.

- Dave

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com>wrote:

> In the string below, it's from a parameter file.
>
> I need to break it out by what's the longest string between the '(' and the
> ')'
> and then the shorter strings between '(' and ')' , then the and/or's so I
> can translate/process the logic.
>
> the include_1 would be a condition name, and the f7/f10/f8 etc are field
> names that are substrings of lines of data.
>
>
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> Quoting Dave Burchell <evaddnomaid at gmail.com>:
>
>  Sure Jay, I'm no guru but I use regex whenever I can.
>>
>> What do you mean when you say "based on what is between '( )'"?
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Jay Swackhamer  <Jay at reboottheuser.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Looking at examples, not getting it done.
>>>
>>> Any regex gurus out there that can give me a tip on taking a string and
>>> splitting into groups based on what is between '( )'
>>>
>>> So I can take condstring, split it into an array by whats grouped in (),
>>> then take each element and split out the rest of the () groups.
>>> i.e.
>>>
>>>  my $condstring="include_1 (f7 ne \'ce\' and f10 ne \'r\' and f1 ne
>>> \'ce\'
>>> and f8 ne \'lg\' and f8 ne \'li\' and f8 ne \'lj\' and f8 ne \'lr\' and
>>> f8
>>> ne \'lu\' and f8 ne \'lv\' and f8 ne \'tl\' and f8 ne \'ta\' and(f4 eq
>>> \'e\'
>>> or f4 eq \'g\' or f4 eq \'w\')) ";
>>>
>>>  @condarr = split /(\).*\))/, $condstring;
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Burchell
>>
>>
>
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