[Regular Expression] match word with interpunctuatio n
Hallo,
I need to build a regular expression
able to match a specified word,
preceded and followed by few chars (mainly interpunctuatio n)
Below the code.
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Explanation:
let's assume the word is
baby
these are the 27 cases I need to match:
baby baby is simply standing alone (obviously)
and also these cases:
baby.
baby,
baby;
baby:
baby!
baby?
baby baby with a following blank space
baby-
baby"
baby'
baby\
baby/
baby)
and also these cases:
..Baby
,baby
;baby
:baby
!baby
?baby
baby baby with a preceding blank space
-baby
"baby
'baby
\baby
/baby
(baby
and also
the resulting regexp
must exclude the following cases:
babylon baby followed by any char
lonbaby baby preceded by any char
baby678 baby followed by any number
678baby baby precede by any number
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This is the code:
'I have to count all the the occurences in a long text.
'I tried this code, but it didn't work:
Dim myCounter As Integer = 0
Dim myMatch As Match = Nothing
Dim myLongText As String = "This morning ...blah...blah. ... goodnight to
everyone"
Dim myPattern As String = "[.;:/,-"!\?'( ]" & "baby" & "[.;:/,-"!\?') ]"
myMatch = Regex.Match(myL ongText, myPattern, RegexOptions.Mu ltiline Or
RegexOptions.Ig noreCase)
Do While myMatch.Success
myCounter = myCounter + 1
myMatch = myMatch.NextMat ch
Loop
Debug.Write (myCounter.tost ring) 2 1931
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:58:22 +0200, teo <te*@inwind.i t> wrote: This is the code: 'I have to count all the the occurences in a long text. 'I tried this code, but it didn't work: Dim myCounter As Integer = 0
Dim myMatch As Match = Nothing
Dim myLongText As String = "This morning ...blah...blah. ... goodnight to everyone"
Dim myPattern As String = "[.;:/,-"!\?'( ]" & "baby" & "[.;:/,-"!\?') ]"
Does it specificaly have to be that punctuation or can it be any
non-alphanumeric character?
If so, some thing like:
"\b" & word & "\b" should work.
See "regular expressions, atomic zero-width assertions" in the help.
>> Dim myPattern As String = "[.;:/,-"!\?'( ]" & "baby" & "[.;:/,-"!\?') ]"
Does it specificaly have to be that punctuation or can it be any non-alphanumeric character?
If so, some thing like: "\b" & word & "\b" should work.
I specificaly have to match that punctuaction.
It seems I have solved it
with this regexp:
[^\w] [\\\,;:!&?("'./- ] ? baby [\\\,;:!&?)"'/.- ] ? [^\w]
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I have another question:
I want to extract a given sequence,
the sequence occurs many times,
but I'm satisfied just
when I've found the very first one,
so to save computational time,
I'd like to tell to the RegExp to "stop and exit immediately" the search,
and give me the sequence,
I repeat in order to save time.
Is there any command to append to the RegExp? This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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