RE: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:45:32 -0400 (EDT)
Try this for the search:
\n\n+([A-Z].*?[a-zA-Z0-9])\n+
and this for the replacement:
\n----------\n\f\n$1\n\n
Jamal
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 7:15 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles
Hi,
I've narrowed down what I want to match a little better now. I'd love to
not have a block for this stuff. Sorry people. Anyway, here goes.
The first thing I want to match is two new lines.
Next is a line of text that starts with a capital letter.
The line can have anything else on it.
The line should end with a letter or a number.
Then I want to replace it with what I have found, but I want to put the
EdSharp section break string before it and an extra new line after it.
A section break in EdSharp looks like this. \n----------\n\f\n
Thanks.
Jim
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 3:17 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles
Btw, your reg ex depending on which engine you're using, could just be
^[A-Z].$
(the period in your reg ex could be interpreted to match any character
besides a new line). Thus, this reg ex just matches a line that starts
with an upper case character followed by any number of characters.
If you instead wanted only alphanumeric characters, then you would
probably try the pattern:
^[A-Z][A-Za-z0-9]*$
(the asterik follows the group and is called a quantifier. The asterik
simply says that the pattern should have 0 or more of this set). I'm not
sure what the ".*" you had in your pattern would have resulted in.
It would then match:
A1234
Ca1a
or
Z
Hth.
On 8/7/10, Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Going out on a limb here regarding exact command line options, but you
could use the 'sed` command, the stream editor to do this at the command
prompt:
$ sed s/(^[A-Z].*[A-Za-z0-9]$)/\f\1/g in.txt > out.txt
or:
$ sed s/\(^[A-Z].*[A-Za-z0-9]$\)/\f\1/g in.txt > out.txt
if `(' needs to be escaped. Not sure if '\f` would insert page breaks
either
-- might have to access the direct ASCII value, but anyways.
The `s' in the sed regular expression pattern instructs sed that you
want to do a substitution.
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Homme, James
<james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
Hi,
Maybe EdSharp uses .Net regular expressions, and maybe they are
different from Perl regular expressions. I was trying to use $1 to
capture and replace, but it was literally inserting $1. I was trying
to put \f before $1 in the replacement expression. I'm attempting to
find what it thinks might be titles and put a page break before them
so that I can simply look through the document and spot check to see
if the lines are really titles rather than read the whole thousand
pages and find them all by hand.
Thanks.
Jim
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 1:25 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section
Titles
It does, just not inside a character class. If you wanted to match
something from one of several character classes using `|', you would
do something
like:
----------
[a-z]|[A-Z]|[...]
----------
But you can just spell out everything you want to match in a single
character class, so I don't see that as particularly useful.
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:48:12 -0400, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm misusing the vertical bar. I thought it created an or condition.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Homme,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:36 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section
Titles
>
> You're including `|' in your last character class, not matching
> uppercase
letters or lowercase letters or digits. This means something like
`This is a
> test|' will match, which, of course, is fine if that's what you're
intending. :)
>
> ----------
> ^[A-Z].+[A-Za-z0-9]$
> ----------
>
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:42:55 -0400, Homme, James wrote:
> > Hi,
> > How would you construct a regular expression that looks for the
> > first
letter of any line in upper case followed by the rest of the line as
long as it ends with a letter or number? Would it be something like
this?
> > ^[A-Z].*[A-Z|a-z|1-9]$
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > Jim Homme,
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