On 2 March 2012 19:37, Brian Devaney <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I am trying to use the Regular Expression Extractor to process search results
> from a web service call. I have a regex that correctly identifies the data I
> want, but I do not know why it does not get assigned to the reference name.
>
So what does the reference name get set to?
> The extractor is set to apply to the main sample only. with the body
> (unescaped) option selected. The other settings are:
> regex: docid="(\w{32})"
> Template: $1$
> Match No.: 0
Do you really want a random match?
> Default Value: NOT FOUND
>
> A small section of the data that is returned and that I am trying to get a ID
> pulled from is:
>
> </columns><result
> docid="8a8a823435cf9a2c0135d03b08350388"
> docTypeId="8a8a823435cf5cd60135cf6ca97a3b7e"
>
> As part of the regex, I have also tried \w* and \w*?
You could also use
[a-f0-9]+
as the value seems to be lowercase hex.
> The idea is to get the unique identifier with the surrounding quotes stripped
> off. I have Mozilla Firefox's Regular Expression Tester and the regex does
> find the right ID along with the quotes and docid=.
However, the Firefox plugin may not be using the same RE engine - or
indeed using exactly the same input data.
> From the help, it looks like the parenthesis indicate which part of the
> string that matches is to be assigned to the Reference Name variable.
Yes.
> Thank you for your help.
>
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