Yes Original text contains backslashes. I have copied exact response above.
It has spacing. I did not add anything explicitly On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thomas Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > As a quick check, does the original text contain those backslashes? > > A version without the backslashes looks a little more normal to me: > test.FilterPanel.viewId = "136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f" > test.FilterPanel.viewId = \"136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f\" > > Also, did you add the spacing around the equal sign, or is it definitely > there in the original text? > > A version that should be insensitive to the spacing would be: > test\.FilterPanel\.viewId.?=.?"(.+?)" > > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Niraj <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have tried both the regex but unfortunately it's not working. > > > > test.FilterPanel.viewId = > \\\"138844c6-a873-4867-8cf4-8a7bc5429537\\\";\"} > > > > i want to extract 138844c6-a873-4867-8cf4-8a7bc5429537. > > > > Please let me know regex to extract required value. > > > > Thanks, > > Niraj > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Niraj <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Thanks Guys for the quick response. > > > > > > Currently my application is down due to some issue. Once it is up, i > will > > > check this regex and will let you know the results. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 8:17 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> On 12 July 2013 09:57, Niraj <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > Can someone please help me in regular expression > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > test.FilterPanel.viewId = \"136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f\" > > >> > > >> > *i want to extract **136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f **from > > this. > > >> * > > >> > > > >> > *Please let me know what should be correct reg ex * > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > *i tried **viewId = \"(.*)\ But got the > > >> > error org.apache.oro.text.MalformedCachePatternException: Invalid > > >> > expression: viewId = \"(.*)\* > > >> > *Trailing \ in expression.* > > >> > > >> It's quite difficult reading your posting because of all the extra * > > >> characters that are scattered about. > > >> > > >> But assuming you start with > > >> > > >> test.FilterPanel.viewId = \"136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f\" > > >> > > >> and want to extract > > >> > > >> 136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f > > >> > > >> Then the way to do it is to take your input, and escape any > > >> meta-characters: > > >> In this case, the \ is the only special char, so it becomes: > > >> > > >> test.FilterPanel.viewId = \\"136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f\\" > > >> > > >> Now put () around the part you want to extract: > > >> > > >> test.FilterPanel.viewId = \\"(136e6c9e-689a-4d24-a3bc-2ace008bee2f)\\" > > >> > > >> Of course this will only extra the exact id, so now you need to make > > >> the id dynamic. > > >> > > >> In this case, the Id seems to consist of lower-case hex and - only, > > >> which is matched by > > >> > > >> [-\da-f]+ > > >> > > >> In the above, the - must come first, otherwise it is treated as a > > >> range, as in a-f. > > >> The \d means digit; you could use 1-9 instead > > >> > > >> So the final expression becomes: > > >> > > >> test.FilterPanel.viewId = \\"([-\da-f]+)\\" > > >> > > >> If the Id could include other characters, you could also use the fact > > >> that it is terminated by \, so you could replace > > >> > > >> [-\da-f]+ > > >> > > >> by > > >> > > >> [^\\]+ > > >> > > >> which means anything except \, repeated any number of times. > > >> > > >> Try this process out in the Tree View Listener regex pane. > > >> > > >> > * > > >> > *Thanks,* > > >> > *Niraj* > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > * > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >> > > >> > > > > > >
