Re: Regex (MatchText) speed

[Mark Brownell]

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 06:50  PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
I only wish I were parsing any kind of "formed" text. The stuff I am 
parsing is more like chaos. It can be anything from plain English 
error messages, to server directory lists, to date and time formats... 
with NO consistent formatting.

The first job of my parser is to simply try to determine what the heck 
it is parsing. I currently have it functional, using if-else ifs, 
contains, etc. I'm considering replacing ALL of that with one powerful 
matchText, but if that only ends up costing me time rather than saving 
it...
-- put getElement("<record>", "</record>", myText) into theElement
-- put getElementsArray("<record>", "</record>", myText) into theArray
These two functions work with any text for the start spot and any text 
for the end spot.

If you were parsing an email message you could use something like this:
-- use the getElement() function from my last message.
-- put getElement("<record>", "</record>", tZap) into theElement
From: Troy Rollins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Jun 23, 2004  6:50:59  PM US/Pacific
To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Regex (MatchText) speed
Reply-To: How to use Revolution <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
put getElement("From:", "Date:", yourEmail) into mFrom
put getElement("Date:", "To:", yourEmail) into mDate
put getElement("To:", "Subject:", yourEmail) into mTo
put getElement("Subject:", "Reply-To:", yourEmail) into mSubject
These example above would require striping the line returns.
To get the body of the email you could use:
put getElement("Reply-To:", "From:", yourEmail) into mBody
...and strip the first line of mBody
Mark
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