RE: [WebDNA] ONLY the FIRST continuous run of numeric chars?
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Ha ha. I just mean it would be nice to know what tags use universal standards for their params. It would make it easier for pseudo-programmers like 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 PM To: talk@webdna.us Subject: 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
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Ha ha. I just mean it would be nice to know what tags use universal standards for their params. It would make it easier for pseudo-programmers like 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 PM To: talk@webdna.us Subject: 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 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/
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