[Omaha.pm] regex gurus

[Dan Linder]

I stumbled across this link on PerlMonks.com:
    http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=803034

It has a lot of good examples on parsing parentheses bound text...

Dan

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:48, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com> wrote:
> That works for the first split I was stuck on.
>
> Thanks
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> Quoting Dave Burchell <evaddnomaid at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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