hey i'm not a regex pro by far which is why i asked if my regex was wrong-
but taking your suggestion it still does not work- not sure why. i've used
the RegExr air app to test this and the simplest i can get it is new
RegExp("\[[^]*\]","igm");
this works when {} are used but not when [] is used, you can see in the
example below- it looks like escaping the [] is affecting the match
(although it works fine in the regex test tool).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^]*\]","igm");
private var mergeRE2:RegExp = new RegExp("{[^]*}","igm");
public function runSquareBracketTest():void
{
var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE);
resultString.text = response.toString();
}
public function runCurlyBracketTest():void
{
var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE2);
resultString.text = response.toString();
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:VBox>
<mx:TextArea id="subjectString" width="400" height="200">
<mx:text>
<![CDATA[<strong>[Employee First Name] </strong>
<strong>{Employee Last Name} </strong>]]>
</mx:text>
</mx:TextArea>
<mx:TextArea id="resultString" width="400" height="200" />
<mx:Button click="runSquareBracketTest();" label="Get first name."
/>
<mx:Button click="runCurlyBracketTest();" label="Get last name." />
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Application>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm confused... why isn't your pattern something like "\[.*]\]" ?
> What's going on with the ^ and the > ? What is supposed to match against
> letters like E, m, p, l, etc.?
>
>
>
> Gordon Smith
>
> Adobe Flex SDK Team
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *Derrick Anderson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:23 PM
> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] RegExp searching for [ and ], are they
> reserved?
>
>
>
> i had tried escaping them, below i've pasted an example of my problem- 2
> samples: 1 looking for [Employee First Name] and one looking for {Employee
> First Name} (curly braces vs square braces) and even though the brackets
> are escaped, the regex with [ and ] only return the ending ]. do i have the
> regex wrong?
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
> layout="absolute">
> <mx:Script>
> <![CDATA[
> private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^>]*?\]","igm");
> private var mergeRE2:RegExp = new RegExp("{[^>]*?}","igm");
>
> public function runSquareBracketTest():void
> {
> var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE);
> resultString.text = response.toString();
> }
>
> public function runCurlyBracketTest():void
> {
> var response:Array = subjectString.text.match(mergeRE2);
> resultString.text = response.toString();
> }
> ]]>
> </mx:Script>
>
> <mx:VBox>
> <mx:TextArea id="subjectString" width="400" height="200">
> <mx:text>
> <![CDATA[<strong>[Employee First Name] </strong>
> <strong>{Employee Last Name} </strong>]]>
> </mx:text>
> </mx:TextArea>
> <mx:TextArea id="resultString" width="400" height="200" />
> <mx:Button click="runSquareBracketTest();" label="Get first name."
> />
> <mx:Button click="runCurlyBracketTest();" label="Get last name."
> />
> </mx:VBox>
> </mx:Application>
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [ and ] are metacharacters in RegExp patterns. For example, "[abc]"
> matches either "a", or 'b" or "c". To prevent this interpretation, escape
> them with a backslash.
>
>
>
> Gordon Smith
>
> Adobe Flex SDK Team
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *Derrick Anderson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:49 PM
> *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* [flexcoders] RegExp searching for [ and ], are they reserved?
>
>
>
> hey all,
>
> i'm trying to do a replace on a string and replace anything in brackets
> with something else.
>
> so [this] word would get replaced, however in the regex tester at gskinner
> this works fine (it's flex based regex test tool) but in my local code- i
> always get unexpected results when my regex expression has brackets in it.
>
> private var mergeRE:RegExp = new RegExp("\[[^>]*?]","igm");
>
> is there another escape character i need to use, why does flash have a
> problem searching for [ and ] in regex?
>
> thanks,
> d.
>
>
>
>
>
