Regular Expression question

[William Morris]

I'm trying to work out a reg.exp. that will pick out a sql statement against
a certain set of tables - in this case any table named "Survey~something~",
but I only want to pull back those statements where the CompanyID column
doesn't appear in the query. (The expression is being used in my editor so
it might appear a little strange, but by and large it works the same as
you'd expect.)

[^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}

What do I need to add so that I get those without a companyid column?
Something like...

[^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}(^companyid)

(tried this one, but it doesn't work)

Thanks!

- Wm
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William Morris
Product Development, Seritas LLC
Kansas City, Missouri

[Evertjan.]

William Morris wrote on 18 jun 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

I'm trying to work out a reg.exp. that will pick out a sql statement
against a certain set of tables - in this case any table named
"Survey~something~", but I only want to pull back those statements
where the CompanyID column doesn't appear in the query. (The
expression is being used in my editor so it might appear a little
strange, but by and large it works the same as you'd expect.)

[^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}

What do I need to add so that I get those without a companyid column?
Something like...

[^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}(^compa
nyid)

(tried this one, but it doesn't work)

It should not. (^companyid) id not a correct negative lookahead
Should be (?!pattern) in jscript/vbscript.

However you are talking about an anonymous editor's regex (editpad?).

So what is the connection with ASP ???????????

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[William Morris]

[^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}(^compa
nyid)

(tried this one, but it doesn't work)

It should not. (^companyid) id not a correct negative lookahead
Should be (?!pattern) in jscript/vbscript.

However you are talking about an anonymous editor's regex (editpad?).

Homesite, actually.
So what is the connection with ASP ???????????

About three dozen queries in several ASP pages. Generally speaking, a
little off topic but I figured there would be a few people that might have
an answer.

[Evertjan.]

William Morris wrote on 18 jun 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

> [^']select(.){0,100}from(.){0,100}Survey(.){0,25}where (.){0,200}(^co
> mpa nyid)
>
> (tried this one, but it doesn't work)
>

It should not. (^companyid) id not a correct negative lookahead
Should be (?!pattern) in jscript/vbscript.

However you are talking about an anonymous editor's regex (editpad?).

Homesite, actually.

So what is the connection with ASP ???????????

About three dozen queries in several ASP pages. Generally speaking, a
little off topic but I figured there would be a few people that might
have an answer.

The problem is, that the regex specs are unknown.

In Jscript, I would first isolate the sql strings in an regex-match
collection and then regex-test those individually on the absence of the
word "companyid"

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)