Is there a good regex testing tool out there. I tend to test straight off my cf code which is cumbersome at times.
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean H. Saxe Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:15 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] regex help FWIW, this is an untested regex from off the top of my head... -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." --Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials On Jun 5, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote: > Don't need the lookarounds.... > > Use this regex and save $1 and $3 /(<a.*?"http://([^/]+/)+[^?]+?) > ([^=]+=\S+\s+\S&?)/gx > > Then use this on $2 to replace the spaces s/\s/+/gx. > > Then push $1 and $2 back together to get your whole string. > > That's the perl way... > > -dhs > > > Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that > they are extreme, but that they are intolerant." > -- Robert F. Kennedy, 1964 > > > On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Steven Ross wrote: > >> I was actually just looking for a regex solution to parsing up many >> lines of text, some of which contain urls. And if those url's have a >> space on the query string to replace those spaces on the query string >> with the + character. >> >> I could use CF but, was trying to just get the regex. Possbly using a >> lookahead or lookbehind assertion. >> >> -Steven >> >> On 6/5/07, Ajas Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> do you plan to save the complete url in a variable or just search >>> keyword in a variable? For example varUrl = <a >>> href="http://blah.com? >>> search=Some >>> Lingering Suspicion" target="_blank">"A Lingering Suspicion"</a> or >>> varUrl = "Some Lingering Suspicion" >>> >>> Please clarify. >>> >>> Ajas. >>> >>> >>> On 6/5/07, Steven Ross < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > in this string: >>> > >>> > <p><b>15) <a href=" http://blah.com?search=Some Lingering >>> Suspicion" >>> > target="_blank">"A Lingering Suspicion"</a></b></p> >>> > >>> > i want to search for the spaces inside: >>> > >>> > ?search= >>> > >>> > and replace those spaces with + so it should end up looking >>> like this: >>> > >>> > ?search=Some+Lingering+Suspicion >>> > >>> > Can this be done? >>> > >>> > thanks, >>> > >>> > Steven >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Steven Ross >>> > web application & interface developer http://www.zerium.com >>> > [mobile] 404-488-4364 [fax] 267-482-4364 >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com >>> > >>> > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ >>> > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform >>> > >>> > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ >>> > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> <Ajas Mohammed /> >>> http://ajashadi.blogspot.com >>> No matter what, find a way. 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