[tpm] Weird Regex Replace Problem

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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:16 AM Antonio Sun <tpm.ats at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>
> So weird. Maybe it is the long 15hr working effect, but I just can't
> figure it out myself now.
>
> Please take a look at
>
> https://regex101.com/r/Hb7gjk/1
>
> That Regex replace would work for Perl as well, right?
>
> BTW, are there any online Regex replace trial sites like above that
> work with Perl's Regex?
>
> Anyway, I can't get it working,

Aha. Just as I thought:

$ file myfile.js
myfile.js: ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF line terminators

the extra CR is before LF.

> but at least I get this works, kind of:
>
> perl -i.bak -p0777e 's/^var (.*?Infos) = .*?data: ([^\n]+),/var $1 =
> {\n        data: $1_data,/gms' myfile.js
>
> The file (first 250,000 characters) is available at
> http://dpaste.com/8L2VYU295
>
> My replace result is at:
> http://dpaste.com/9UQF6JE43
>
> What's weird is that, it almost works, but there is one replacement,
> the one on line 410, took away the whole following section, bleeding
> over to the next match. But others are just fine!!

So this still remains as a mystery

> Please
>
> - See if you get the same result as mine using my "working" Perl command.
> - Explain why the one at https://regex101.com/r/Hb7gjk/1 is failing for Perl.
> - Preferably make the one at https://regex101.com/r/Hb7gjk/1 work for
> Perl, as close as possible
> - Recommend trial sites like above that work with Perl's Regex
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Antonio
>
> PS. please don't directly reply to me as my this email address is only
> good for receiving emails from toronto-pm at pm.org.
>
> PPS. my env:
>
> $ perl -v | head -3
>
> This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for
> x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
> (with 48 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
>
> $ uname -rm
> 4.19.76-linuxkit x86_64
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Debian
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
> Release:        testing
> Codename:       bullseye