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smjenkin
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Apr 11, 2011, 8:15 PM

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Makefile regex	Can't Post

Hi all,
I am having a little trouble trying to store data using regular expressions when reading in a Makefile.
The basic Makefile structure is:

Target : Prereq1 Prereq2 PrereqN
Command

So what I am trying to do is store the Target into $tar, the Prereqs into @pre and the command string into $com. I am able to get the Target : Prereq to split around the colon, but that doesn't help if there are multiple prereqs because it will just store them all as one string into the array. How would I do a regex that tells it to take every word before/after the colon or if the line begins with a tab, as the command line is. Any help would be appreciated. I have been struggling with this for a couple hours now. Thanks!

Zhris
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Apr 11, 2011, 9:23 PM

Post #2 of 4 (1680 views)

Re: [smjenkin] Makefile regex [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

Not sure what you mean by lines that begin with tabs, but if you can split a string into target + prereqs up, then you can take the prereqs and split it up further using the same method e.g. in 1 regex:

Code

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
my $string = "Target : Prereq1 Prereq2 PrereqN"; 
my ($tar, @pre) = split /\s:\s|\s/, $string; 
 
print "$tar\n"; 
print "$_\n" foreach (@pre);

Chris

(This post was edited by Zhris on Apr 11, 2011, 9:29 PM)

rovf
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Apr 28, 2011, 3:58 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1549 views)

Re: [Zhris] Makefile regex [In reply to]	Can't Post

Quote

Not sure what you mean by lines that begin with tabs

Makefiles adhere to the weird syntax, that a tab character in the beginning of a line (\t) has a special meaning. In particular, the meaning is different from a space character.

rovf
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Apr 28, 2011, 4:11 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1548 views)

Re: [smjenkin] Makefile regex [In reply to]	Can't Post

You can find out whether it is a command line by testing

substr($line,0,1) eq "\t"

This basically leaves you with the prerequisite lines (actually, you have also to care about empty lines, lines containing variable definitions, and comments, but you didn't ask about them, so I guess you know how to handle them).

For the target lines, you could do a

split(/\s+(:\s*)|\s*:\s+/,$line)

to get at the individual fields. The first item should be the target, the other ones are the prereqs.

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