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regular expression to iggnore

devi
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Jun 13, 2012, 11:00 AM

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regular expression to iggnore	Can't Post

^\s*case\s+.*?:\s*$

My tool reads a xml file to parse the soruce code files (like java, C++ etc..) to generate the line count, the above expression in my xml file makes all the lines which has only the word case : to get ignored. Could someone plese help me in below two cases to write above kind of expression.

CASE1:- If any line starts with : (colon), then that line should be ingored. For example, in the below line the word END stars with : , so this line should be ignored. (there is no space betwwen : and END word)

:END

CASE 2:- if any line starts with the word struct then that line should be ignroed. for example, below line should be ingnored

struct simple

rovf
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Jun 14, 2012, 12:25 AM

Post #2 of 9 (21261 views)

Re: [devi] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

From perldoc perlre:

^ Match the beginning of the line

By default, the "^" character is guaranteed to match only the beginning
of the string, the "$" character only the end (or before the newline at
the end), and Perl does certain optimizations with the assumption that
the string contains only one line. Embedded newlines will not be matched
by "^" or "$". You may, however, wish to treat a string as a multi-line
buffer, such that the "^" will match after any newline within the string
(except if the newline is the last character in the string), and "$"
will match before any newline. At the cost of a little more overhead,
you can do this by using the /m modifier on the pattern match operator.

Hence, if the expression you want to test by regex, contains one line of your source file, you can use ^ to anchor your string at the beginning of the line.

However, I wonder why you are asking this, because you are using ^ already in the regexp you had posted.

BTW, your expression
^\s*case\s+.*?:\s*$ does not do what you claim it would do. It matches not only thos lines which have only the word case :, but would, for example, also match a line such as

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  case 35 :

devi
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Jun 14, 2012, 11:51 AM

Post #3 of 9 (21215 views)

Re: [rovf] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

thaks for your reply.

<expression>^\s*}\s+else\s+{.*$</expression>

i have written above regular expression to ignore lines which are in below format and It is working as expected

} else {

But, if add anything after "else" word, it is still ignoring the line. for example, it should not ignore below line.

} else if (2>3) {

could you please correct it

} else { ------ This line should be ignored

} else if (2>3) { ------ This line should not be ignored

rovf
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Jun 15, 2012, 3:36 AM

Post #4 of 9 (21196 views)

Re: [devi] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

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my $ignore_this_line = /^\s*\}\s*else\s*\{\s*/;

Of course, this also would ignore the line

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                   }else           {

and it would not ignore the line

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  } else {  /* This can be ignored */

devi
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Jun 15, 2012, 3:46 AM

Post #5 of 9 (21194 views)

Re: [rovf] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

But it is ignoring below line also, this I do not want as part of my requirement.

} else if (a<10) {

It should ignore, only below kind of lines

} else {

} else {

(This post was edited by devi on Jun 15, 2012, 3:48 AM)

rovf
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Jun 15, 2012, 5:06 AM

Post #6 of 9 (21188 views)

Re: [devi] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

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But it is ignoring below line also, this I do not want as part of my requirement.

} else if (a<10) {

Not true. The regexp

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/^\s*\}\s*else\s*\{\s*/

does not match

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} else if (a<10) {

Having said this, there is a bug in my regexp: I was missing the final $. The correct regexp has of course to be

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/^\s*\}\s*else\s*\{\s*$/

devi
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Jun 15, 2012, 6:05 AM

Post #7 of 9 (21187 views)

Re: [rovf] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

your regular expression is working, but it is ignoring the lines like these also ----> } else if(a>10) {

One working case:-

^\s*else\s+{.*$

i have added above line for a different case where lines like " else { " should be ignored and it is working pretty fine as well. For example:

else { ---------- this line is getting ignored.

else if (a>10) { ------------ This line is not getting ignored

rovf
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Jun 15, 2012, 6:47 AM

Post #8 of 9 (21184 views)

Re: [devi] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

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your regular expression is working, but it is ignoring the lines like these also ----> } else if(a>10) {

I don't think that what you say here is correct. Please demonstrate your claim by a short, self-contained example program.

Regards,

Ronald

rovf
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Jun 15, 2012, 7:03 AM

Post #9 of 9 (21180 views)

Re: [devi] regular expression to iggnore [In reply to]	Can't Post

BTW, here you can see that it *is* working as expected:

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$ perl -lwe 'print("$_ : ",/^\s*\}\s*else\s*\{\s*$/ ? "match" : "no match") for ("} else { ", "} else if (a<10) { ")' 
} else {  : match 
} else if (a<10) {  : no match

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