Ever since those aliens landed... err... crashed that's right they crashed...
life has gotten way too dang complicated!
Bob
On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:40 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
> Just a small correction to your regular expression Jeff to make it case
> insensitive as it ignores the caseInsensitive global property and also
> assuming that Mathias doesn't want to match chunks of longer strings I've
> added the ^ & $:
>
> (?i)^([a-z0-9]{2})\.([a-z0-9]{5})\.([a-z0-9]{3})$
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
>
> On 05/11/2010, at 6:57 AM, Jeff Massung wrote:
>
>> It would be good to know where the numbers and letters are if that's
>> possible. But this will get you going:
>>
>> local tXX
>> local tYYYYY
>> local tZZZ
>>
>> ## just a simple unit test
>> get "A1.B35AZ.001"
>>
>> ## do the match
>> if matchText(it, "([a-z0-9]{2})\.([a-z0-9]{5})\.([a-z0-9]{3})", tXX, tYYYYY,
>> tZZZ) is true then
>> put tXX & cr & tYYYYY & tZZZ
>> end if
>>
>> If you need it to be more specialized (eg, the format is really:
>> A#.A##AA.### where A=alpha and #=number) then let me know and I can get a
>> better matching pattern for you.
>>
>> Jeff M.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Matthias Rebbe <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> i have to check for an value in the format XX.YYYYY.ZZZ (e.g.
>>> A1.B35AZ.001 or a1.b35az.001)
>>> I have to check if the value is in the right format. I know i can do that
>>> with matchtext and a regular expression, but
>>> i do not know enough to get the regular expression to work.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who might be able to help?
>
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