RE: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?

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2008

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 101236
interpreted = N
texte = Ha ha. I just mean it would be nice to know what tags use universalstandards for their params. It would make it easier for pseudo-programmerslike myself to find out what capabilities we have within WebDNA.-----Original Message-----From: Matthew Bohne [mailto:matthew.bohne@benetela.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:32 PMTo: talk@webdna.usSubject: Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?Grep, in plain english? The *nix admins can't allow that.Michael A. DeLorenzo wrote:> Did I miss this somewhere in the docs in plain English? I thought we were> mostly limited to the commands, params, etc. in the WebDNA programmer> guide......>> I have now seen the light.>>> -----Original Message-----> From: Matthew Bohne [mailto:matthew.bohne@benetela.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:59 PM> To: talk@webdna.us> Subject: Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?>> The O'Reilly Pocket Guide for Regular Expressions is a handy reference > in these situations.>> [^0-9]* - any character except a number followed by one or more of the > same character> ([0-9][0-9]*) - two or more numbers followed by one or more of the same > character.> - The parenthesis mark it for the \1 in the replace statement.> .* - Any character (except line breaks) followed by one or more of the > same character> | - OR> .* - Any character (except line breaks) followed by one or more of the > same character.>> It then replaces it with whatever was found in the parenthetical set. > If no number strings were found by themselves, it returns blank.>>>> Govinda wrote:> >> Perfect!!>>>> When I saw Grant was writing [grep] for v.4 I remember thinking, "if >> he and we get this right, then we'll forget many other tags as this >> can solve so many things.">> I suppose both side are still aiming for that. ;-)>> In that spirit, Bill can you explain this last [grep] search param you >> wrote in english? What is the logic?>> I get the first two parts, i.e.:>> -any number of non-numeric chars, followed by>> -at least one numeric char, followed by>> ((now here is where it is not clear to me))>> ? - any number of any chars, followed by>> ? - a pipe, followed by>> ? - any number of any chars>>>> why does this do the job?>>>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:32 AM, William DeVaul wrote:>>>> >>> [grep search=[^0-9]*([0-9][0-9]*).*|.*&replace=\1][myString][/grep]>>>>>> This will work to ignore the case where no number is in the string.>>> It will return an apartment number if there is no street number.>>>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us>> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>>>>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>> ---------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed tothe mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.usold archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("William DeVaul" 2008)
RE: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("Michael A. DeLorenzo" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Matthew Bohne 2008)
RE: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("Michael A. DeLorenzo" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Gary Krockover 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Matthew Bohne 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("William DeVaul" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("William DeVaul" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("Gary Krockover" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Patrick McCormick 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Terry Wilson 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Charles Kline 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("Gary Krockover" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("Gary Krockover" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Stuart Tremain 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Stuart Tremain 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? ("William DeVaul" 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Govinda 2008)
Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars? (Stuart Tremain 2008)

Ha ha. I just mean it would be nice to know what tags use universalstandards for their params. It would make it easier for pseudo-programmerslike myself to find out what capabilities we have within WebDNA.-----Original Message-----From: Matthew Bohne [mailto:matthew.bohne@benetela.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:32 PMTo: talk@webdna.usSubject: Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?Grep, in plain english? The *nix admins can't allow that.Michael A. DeLorenzo wrote:> Did I miss this somewhere in the docs in plain English? I thought we were> mostly limited to the commands, params, etc. in the WebDNA programmer> guide......>> I have now seen the light.>>> -----Original Message-----> From: Matthew Bohne [mailto:matthew.bohne@benetela.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 1:59 PM> To: talk@webdna.us> Subject: Re: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?>> The O'Reilly Pocket Guide for Regular Expressions is a handy reference > in these situations.>> [^0-9]* - any character except a number followed by one or more of the > same character> ([0-9][0-9]*) - two or more numbers followed by one or more of the same > character.> - The parenthesis mark it for the \1 in the replace statement.> .* - Any character (except line breaks) followed by one or more of the > same character> | - OR> .* - Any character (except line breaks) followed by one or more of the > same character.>> It then replaces it with whatever was found in the parenthetical set. > If no number strings were found by themselves, it returns blank.>>>> Govinda wrote:> >> Perfect!!>>>> When I saw Grant was writing [grep] for v.4 I remember thinking, "if >> he and we get this right, then we'll forget many other tags as this >> can solve so many things.">> I suppose both side are still aiming for that. ;-)>> In that spirit, Bill can you explain this last [grep] search param you >> wrote in english? What is the logic?>> I get the first two parts, i.e.:>> -any number of non-numeric chars, followed by>> -at least one numeric char, followed by>> ((now here is where it is not clear to me))>> ? - any number of any chars, followed by>> ? - a pipe, followed by>> ? - any number of any chars>>>> why does this do the job?>>>> On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:32 AM, William DeVaul wrote:>>>> >>> [grep search=[^0-9]*([0-9][0-9]*).*|.*&replace=\1][myString][/grep]>>>>>> This will work to ignore the case where no number is in the string.>>> It will return an apartment number if there is no street number.>>>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us>> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>>>>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>> ---------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/>>> ---------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed tothe mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.usold archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ "Michael A. DeLorenzo"

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