[flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-15 Thread marty.pitt
Yeah, that'd be great! My email is kiwicomposer at hotmail dot com Thanks Jhonny. Marty --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jhonny Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To solve a similar problem I wrote a lexical analyzer and a parser in AIR. I use it to convert Java code to AS3 to using with

[flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-14 Thread jer_ela
While there are ways to work around nesting to a known depth, it gets ugly quickly, and nesting to an arbitrary depth is beyond the ability of regexes to match directly. What you can do is write a parser that uses regular expression and additional code to find the substring you are searching for.

[flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-14 Thread marty.pitt
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 forloop) But, the idea of employing the function / class statement in the

[flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-14 Thread marty.pitt
Hi Thanks for your reply. I may have to look at a non-regex method. Cheers Marty --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, jer_ela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there are ways to work around nesting to a known depth, it gets ugly quickly, and nesting to an arbitrary depth is beyond the ability

[flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-14 Thread marty.pitt
Hmmm...looks like the RegEx method isn't going to be the holy grail I had hoped! Thanks very much for yout time, Maciek. Marty --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Maciek Sakrejda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, you've hit an ugly problem for regex, Marty. Check out the section on

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Help with RegEx

2008-02-14 Thread Jhonny Everson
To solve a similar problem I wrote a lexical analyzer and a parser in AIR. I use it to convert Java code to AS3 to using with remoting. The code is messy but i can send to you if you want. -- Jhonny Everson