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beecha
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Jan 4, 2018, 6:18 AM

Post #1 of 8 (7551 views)

regex expression	Can't Post

hi all,

i am working on the regex for below mentioned paragraph

war eligible, init =0*DEC0, ev = {1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32,
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32}

Always the line starts from WAR i need to take only the values which are in the { } example:1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,5*BIN43,6*DEC32,5*BIN43,7*DEC32

can anyone help me with this

t

Laurent_R
Veteran / Moderator

Jan 5, 2018, 10:01 AM

Post #2 of 8 (7541 views)

Re: [beecha] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

You need to define very precisely and very accurately what you're looking for when designing a regex.

Please clarify:
- is the text you want to study in a string variable? In a file?
- does it contain only what you have shown or does it have a repetition of such 3-line paragraphs??
- are the { and } characters part of the string?

I would be good to quote verbatim your input data in within a code block so that we can figure exactly what it looks like.

BillKSmith
Veteran

Jan 6, 2018, 11:27 AM

Post #3 of 8 (7532 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

As Laurent has already said, we need more information. I have made a number of assumptions and proposed a solution which requires them. If this does help in any other way, I hope it helps you to post a better statement of your problem.

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
#post 84614 
 
 
=assumptions 
    Text is in a string (or you can read it into a string yourself) 
 
    the '&' characters are continuation marks (not included in string) 
 
    It is not necessary to do the whole job with one regex. 
 
    You do not know how many values to expect 
=cut 
 
my $string = <<'END_STRING'; 
war eligible, init =0*DEC0, ev = {1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32} 
END_STRING 
 
 
$string =~ s/\n(\& )?//msg; 
$string =~ m/war[^{]*{([^}]*?)}.*$/; 
my @values = split /\,/, $1; 
 
do{local $" = ','; print "@values\n"}; 
 
 
 
C:\Users\Bill\forums\guru>perl beecha1.pl 
1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32

Good Luck,
Bill

beecha
Novice

Jan 6, 2018, 10:30 PM

Post #4 of 8 (7523 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi

Thanks for reply.

- is the text you want to study in a string variable? In a file?
ANS:the text will be present in the file i am reading the file line by line .

- does it contain only what you have shown or does it have a repetition of such 3-line paragraphs??

ANS: It will have repetition in the file . only "WAR" "init" "ev" will be common in the paragraph . i am looking to get the string between the {} without '&'
"1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32"

For ex:
war eligible, init =0*DEC0, ev = {1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32,
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32}
obtain string:
"1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32"

war wear, init =1*DEC1, ev = {
& 1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32,
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32,6*DEC32,6*DEC3,
& 8*BIN3,6*DEC34
}
- are the { and } characters part of the string?
i am looking to get the string between the {} without '&' character.

Thanks

beecha
Novice

Jan 6, 2018, 10:33 PM

Post #5 of 8 (7521 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

thank you for your reply.

It will have repetition in the file . only "WAR" "init" "ev" will be common in the paragraph . i am looking to get the string between the {} without '&'
"1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32"

For ex:
war eligible, init =0*DEC0, ev = {1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32,
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32}
obtain string:
"1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32"

war wear, init =1*DEC1, ev = {
& 1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4,
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32,
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32,6*DEC32,6*DEC3,
& 8*BIN3,6*DEC34
}

Laurent_R
Veteran / Moderator

Jan 7, 2018, 5:54 AM

Post #6 of 8 (7507 views)

Re: [beecha] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

OK, one try with some assumptions on your input:

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
my $input = "war eligible, init =0*DEC0, ev = {1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32} 
war wear, init =1*DEC1, ev = { 
& 1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 
& 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 
& 5*BIN43,7*DEC32,6*DEC32,6*DEC3, 
& 8*BIN3,6*DEC34 
} "; 
 
my @strings = split /\nwar/m, $input; 
for (@strings) { 
    s/\n\&//g; 
    my $match = $1 if /\{([^}]+?)\}/mg; 
    print "match: $match \n" 
}

This produces the following output:

Code

match: 1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32 
match:  1*BIN0,2*DEC3,6*BIN4, 5*BIN43,6*DEC32, 5*BIN43,7*DEC32,6*DEC32,6*DEC3, 8*BIN3,6*DEC34

I suppose this is (more or less) what you want.

BillKSmith
Veteran

Jan 7, 2018, 7:47 AM

Post #7 of 8 (7504 views)

Re: [beecha] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

Laurent and I have made exactly the same assumptions and we each proposed two step solutions. I do not see any reason in your new post that says you could not use either one.

It now appears that your data is in a file and you do not know how to read it into a string. Show us what you have done to read the file (Omit parsing. We can return to that later). Attach a realistic sample data file. Verify that we can run your code against your data and duplicate your error.

Hint: In the data that you have posted, "paragraphs" are separated by a single blank line. If this is always true, you should use the special variable 'INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR' ($/).

You can get the documentation for it with the utility perldoc.

Code

perldoc -v $/

Good Luck,
Bill

Laurent_R
Veteran / Moderator

Jan 9, 2018, 6:47 AM

Post #8 of 8 (7432 views)

Re: [beecha] regex expression [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi beecha,
I see that you have now posted the same question on the Perl Monks forum: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1206966

But you apparently did not care about answering Bill's and my posts here. Thank you very much for your gratitude.

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