Help on Regex

rajiv07

Hi to all,

I have regex related pl fie below.when i execute the file it gives some error.


My error

Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^D:/HTTP/sample/SAREGAMA/HINDI/01/INH100155170 O HANSINI( <-- HERE ZEHREELA INSAAN.wma$/ at C:\DOCUME~1\INDIAM~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\locB8.tmp line 9.

Please Help on this.

regards Rajiv.

Jun 2 '08 #1

rajiv07

I got the point now if the string contain regex special character like $,^ ) we have to escape the character.

Regards
Rajiv

Jun 2 '08 #2

nithinpes

Hi to all,

I have regex related pl fie below.when i execute the file it gives some error.

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1. #!/usr/bin/perl
2. my @array=('3242342','fdsfsd4432');
3.  
4. my $file='D:/HTTP/sample/SAREGAMA/HINDI/01/INH100155170 O HANSINI(ZEHREELA INSAAN.wma';
5.  
6. my @ee=grep(/^$file$/,@array);
7.  
8. print @ee;

My error

Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^D:/HTTP/sample/SAREGAMA/HINDI/01/INH100155170 O HANSINI( <-- HERE ZEHREELA INSAAN.wma$/ at C:\DOCUME~1\INDIAM~1.COM\LOCALS~1\Temp\locB8.tmp line 9.

Please Help on this.

regards Rajiv.

Change this line:
to :

In your case, $file contains forward slashes which will mess up the regex(as they stand for pattern delimiters). Even using double quotes and escaping the slashes will not work.
If you put a pattern between \Q and \E, any special meaning of the characters in pattern match will be ignored (variable substitutions will be allowed). For ex:
/\Q.*?\E/ will match '.*?'

Jun 2 '08 #3

rajiv07

Change this line:

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1. my @ee=grep(/^$file$/,@array);
2.  

to :

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1. my @ee=grep(/^\Q$file\E$/,@array);
2.  

In your case, $file contains forward slashes which will mess up the regex(as they stand for pattern delimiters). Even using double quotes and escaping the slashes will not work.
If you put a pattern between \Q and \E, any special meaning of the characters in pattern match will be ignored (variable substitutions will be allowed). For ex:
/\Q.*?\E/ will match '.*?'

Thank You Nithin,

Why cannot we use escape the special regex char.its also working fine.Is any problem will occur when using this concept,if so please let me know and could u suggest any regexp site to refer.

Regards

Rajiv

Jun 2 '08 #4

nithinpes

Thank You Nithin,

Why cannot we use escape the special regex char.its also working fine.Is any problem will occur when using this concept,if so please let me know and could u suggest any regexp site to refer.

Regards

Rajiv

Sorry for the confusion and missed phrase. I mean to say: "Even using double quotes and escaping the slashes will not be a tidy work" (as it includes n number of slashes, dots & probably other characters).
So, instead of escaping each & every special characters, using \Q and \E would be crisp and easy.

Jun 2 '08 #5