Hi Robert
Thanks very much for your reply.
Unfortunately, as you say, the expression won't work in situations
where there's a closing brace within the function (eg., delimiting the
end of the a case function, or a for....loop)
But, the idea of employing the function / class statement in the
opening certainly helps with eliminating some of the nesting.
Thanks again for your input, it's greatly appreciated
Cheers
Marty
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Stehwien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> For functions use a regular expression like: function[\s\S]*{[\s\S]*}
>
> This looks for function followed by zero or more of any character
(including
> newlines), followed by {, followed by zero or more of any character
> (including newlines), followed by }.
>
> For classes replace "function" with "class" above.
>
> FYI: I use RegEx Buddy to help me with my regular expressions
> http://www.regexbuddy.com/
>
> (I am in no way affiliated with the company, just like the product).
>
> I tested the function expression in that tool for JavaScript and it
seemed
> to work even when nesting.
>
> What it wouldn't help you with is if you nested functions within
functions
> (like when declaring a function object). But I don't have time to
fiddle
> with that right now.
>
> --Robert
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:22 AM, marty.pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Can someone please give me a hand on a RegEx? (I can't work these
> > things out for the life of me).
> >
> > I'm basically trying to return nested groups inside delimeters.
> >
> > An example we're all famililar with is the simple package / class
> > structure in Flex:
> >
> > package foo {
> > class bar {
> > function stuff {
> > ...
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > Given the delimeters oof { and }, I want to be able to return:
> > function stuff {
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > As well as
> >
> > class bar {
> > function stuff {
> > ...
> > }
> > }
> >
> > etc., up the chain.
> >
> > I currently have the following regex working:
> >
> > {\d*?\D*?}
> >
> > Which works fine without nesting. As soon as you introduce nested
> > elements, it all gets a bit messy.
> >
> > any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
> >
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