On Apr 4, 5:40 pm, use...@tech-know-ware.com wrote:
> On 4 Apr, 17:08, ror...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Apr 3, 12:46 pm, use...@tech-know-ware.com wrote:
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> > > It looks to me that Bj=F6rn's pattern achieves this.  (Which filling =
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> > > the dots would be:
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> > > (^[ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]|'[^']*')*
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> > > Can you do a test program and show some examples where it does not
> > > work?
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> > The pipe(|) in you regular expression means 'or' right? If so then you
> > can only have the characters dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\ OR characters in
> > quotes but not both in the same string so you can have:
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> > dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
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> > 'ab$olutN0n$en$e'
> > But not
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> > dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$e'
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> > Does this make sense?
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> But that's then wrapped in a set of brackets and a *.  So you can have
> any number of occurences of:
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> dddd, d. MMMM yyyy
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> 'ab$olutN0n$en$e'
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> which means you can have:
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> dddd, d. MMMM yyyy 'ab$olutN0n$en$e'
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> Note the pattern mentioned earlier is wrong.  To match Bjorn's
> suggestion it should not have had the first ^, so it becomes:
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> ([ dgHhMmstyf,\-\./:;\\]|'[^']*')*
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> I recommend loading the pattern into whatever is the most convenient
> regular expression parser for you such as Perl, PHP, Java, C#,
> Javascript, and developing a number of test cases.  Then check that
> each one passes or fails as is appropriate.  Then where there's
> errors, list them here.
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> If you don't have a convenient regular expression engine locally you
> might be able to download a pure regular expression tester, or do
> something on the web such as:http://www.nvcc.edu/home/drodgers/ceu/resour=
ces/test_regexp.asp
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> BTW - when testing a regular expression destined for a schema on a
> normal regular expression engine, remember to put ^ and $ anchors
> around it.
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> HTH,
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> Pete.
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I have it working now. Thanks a lot to all who replied.

-Rory.