[tpm] I wish I was better at regex's

[J. Bobby Lopez]

Then I suppose a rephrasing the question would be beneficial.  Instead of:

"Strip comments from lines while obeying quoted strings"

.. maybe:

"Rip key/value pairs from line, and disregard comments".

Which would put the focus on the key/val pairs (with an opportunity to
normalize them; convert them all to quoted values, for example), instead of
focusing on stripping the comments away.


On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Uri Guttman <uri at stemsystems.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "JBL" == J Bobby Lopez <jbl at jbldata.com> writes:
>
>   JBL> Agreed, but in the event that you don't have a strict format for
>  JBL> comments and key/value pairs (quotes/no quotes; comments with
>  JBL> special characters/without), then you're still looking for the
>  JBL> last instance of ';' outside of last (possible) quote, no?
>
> if you DON'T have a strict format, how can it be parsed and used by any
> program? you have to assume or know the rules. this is a config file
> that is already being parsed and used by some program. the OP wants to
> modify it with perl regexes which is the wrong solution. since it has a
> specification of some sort, it can be parsed and left to right parsing
> is the way to go.
>
> uri
>
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