On 18/08/2009 11:28 PM, Beau Wilkinson wrote:
> That said, if you're in posession of the source code,
> you can certainly hack something up to support that.
> A better option might be to pre-process the MySQL file
> using C, Perl, XSLT (just kidding - don't use XSLT)
> or whatever else you prefer for this kind of rote file manipulation
"rote" is relative; it's certainly just a flick of the wrist if you're
willing to bet on there being no ')' characters in the text literals,
otherwise it gets a bit hairy...
Here's an attempt at something fairly general using Python regular
expressions; just point this at the remainder of the statement after the
VALUES keyword:
import re
value_literal = r"""
(?:
' (?: [^'] | '' ) * ' # text literal
|
[^,)\s] + # any other literal
)
"""
value_list_re = r"\(\s*LIT\s*(?:,\s*LIT\s*)*\)".replace("LIT",
value_literal)
data = """
(1,'PENELOPE','GUINESS','2006-02-15 04:34:33'), (2,'NICK','WAHLBERG',
'2006-02-15 04:34:33'),(3,'ED','CHASE','2006-02-15 04:34:33'),
(4,'Seamus', 'O''Reilly'),(4.1,x'f00baa'),(5678),
(6, 'William','Pitt (the Elder)'),(6.1, 'Willie', 'Pitt (the
Younger)'),
( 7 , 'spaced' , 'out' )
"""
rx = re.compile(value_list_re, re.VERBOSE)
for vlist in rx.findall(data):
print vlist
and here's the output:
(1,'PENELOPE','GUINESS','2006-02-15 04:34:33')
(2,'NICK','WAHLBERG',
'2006-02-15 04:34:33')
(3,'ED','CHASE','2006-02-15 04:34:33')
(4,'Seamus', 'O''Reilly')
(4.1,x'f00baa')
(5678)
(6, 'William','Pitt (the Elder)')
(6.1, 'Willie', 'Pitt (the Younger)')
( 7 , 'spaced' , 'out' )
Cheers,
John
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