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Help with a Regex Pattern
I have data which is in this format:
J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob Const sPattern As String = "([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{1,3}(?=\ )(\D\s)" Set oRegex = New RegExp oRegex.Pattern = sPattern oRegex.Global = True 'check all of the rows With ActiveSheet S = .Cells(lR, iCWD).Value2 If oRegex.Test(S) = True Then Set colmatches = oRegex.Execute(S) strData = colmatches(0) 'convert the dewey to numeric if it does not 'have a leading alpha If (bStringsT_IsLongInteger(strData) = True) Then .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = iStringsT_StringToIntegerNumber(strData) Else .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = colmatches(0) End If End If End With |
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What do you mean you "are having trouble with the pattern"? What are you
trying to do? What do you want to see happen? What do you want Excel to do for you? HTH Otto wrote in message ups.com... I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob Const sPattern As String = "([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{1,3}(?=\ )(\D\s)" Set oRegex = New RegExp oRegex.Pattern = sPattern oRegex.Global = True 'check all of the rows With ActiveSheet S = .Cells(lR, iCWD).Value2 If oRegex.Test(S) = True Then Set colmatches = oRegex.Execute(S) strData = colmatches(0) 'convert the dewey to numeric if it does not 'have a leading alpha If (bStringsT_IsLongInteger(strData) = True) Then .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = iStringsT_StringToIntegerNumber(strData) Else .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = colmatches(0) End If End If End With |
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I haven't try it, but I thought it would be this
Const sPattern As String = "([JjXxZz]?)d{1,3}(?=\ )[A-Za-z]" " wrote: I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob Const sPattern As String = "([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{1,3}(?=\ )(\D\s)" Set oRegex = New RegExp oRegex.Pattern = sPattern oRegex.Global = True 'check all of the rows With ActiveSheet S = .Cells(lR, iCWD).Value2 If oRegex.Test(S) = True Then Set colmatches = oRegex.Execute(S) strData = colmatches(0) 'convert the dewey to numeric if it does not 'have a leading alpha If (bStringsT_IsLongInteger(strData) = True) Then .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = iStringsT_StringToIntegerNumber(strData) Else .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = colmatches(0) End If End If End With |
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Otto: It is obvious from the code he is working with C++. The patterns he is
working with goes back to the development of UNIX at Bell Labs (and probably earlier than that). The syntax that Bob is using describes a custom language that is used to describe strings consisting of words and characters. Bell Labs did lots of research on Pattern Recognition like this to develope efficient methods for searching for name in a Phone Book. Computers were very slow and memory was very expensive in the 1970's. Bell Labs were trying to save money by by find efffiecent methods for storing their phone books electronically and finding name quickly using computers so operators didn't have to manually look up people names. That was one of the main reasons UNIX was developed. Bell labs had lots of computer systems that couldn't talk to each other (phonebook, billing, switching equipment) and wanted to develope one computer language that could be used by all there computers. "Otto Moehrbach" wrote: What do you mean you "are having trouble with the pattern"? What are you trying to do? What do you want to see happen? What do you want Excel to do for you? HTH Otto wrote in message ups.com... I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob Const sPattern As String = "([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{1,3}(?=\ )(\D\s)" Set oRegex = New RegExp oRegex.Pattern = sPattern oRegex.Global = True 'check all of the rows With ActiveSheet S = .Cells(lR, iCWD).Value2 If oRegex.Test(S) = True Then Set colmatches = oRegex.Execute(S) strData = colmatches(0) 'convert the dewey to numeric if it does not 'have a leading alpha If (bStringsT_IsLongInteger(strData) = True) Then .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = iStringsT_StringToIntegerNumber(strData) Else .Cells(lR, iCO).Value2 = colmatches(0) End If End If End With |
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Ron: Shouldn't the '?' be optional? this would be the space after the first
optional character. "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 06:55:01 -0700, wrote: I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. ([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z] I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob --ron |
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Joel,
As I understood the OP's request, both the initial letter and the subsequent space are optional. The "?" indicates that everything in the preceding is optional, since the preceding is enclosed in parentheses. So either J 123 K or 123 K would be acceptable. --ron On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:48:01 -0700, Joel wrote: Ron: Shouldn't the '?' be optional? this would be the space after the first optional character. "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 06:55:01 -0700, wrote: I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. ([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z] I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob --ron --ron |
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I though the ? represent any one character. I would think these would be
better ([JjXxZz][ ]\s)\d{3}\s[ =][A-Za-z] "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote: Joel, As I understood the OP's request, both the initial letter and the subsequent space are optional. The "?" indicates that everything in the preceding is optional, since the preceding is enclosed in parentheses. So either J 123 K or 123 K would be acceptable. --ron On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:48:01 -0700, Joel wrote: Ron: Shouldn't the '?' be optional? this would be the space after the first optional character. "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote: On 29 Apr 2007 06:55:01 -0700, wrote: I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. ([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z] I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob --ron --ron |
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I have data which is in this format:
J 123 K ([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z] Just an idea. My thoughts might be to limit the search by including "^" and "$" "^([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z]$" What I'm thinking is that maybe something like "A 123 k" might test True by ignoring the "A", and "ABC j 123 k" might test True by finding the pattern within a larger string. -- Dana DeLouis Windows XP & Office 2007 "Ron Rosenfeld" wrote in message ... On 29 Apr 2007 06:55:01 -0700, wrote: I have data which is in this format: J 123 K The J is optional, could be upper or lower case, and could be a J or an X or a Z. It is always followed by a space. The three digits. Then a space. Then any alphabetic character upper or lower case, but not optional, the character must be there. ([JjXxZz]\s)?\d{3}\s[A-Za-z] I am having trouble with the pattern, could someone show me how to set it up? tia bob --ron |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:04:07 -0400, "Dana DeLouis"
wrote: What I'm thinking is that maybe something like "A 123 k" might test True by ignoring the "A", and "ABC j 123 k" might test True by finding the pattern within a larger string. I guess one question which has not been answered is the reason for the regex. Is it to extract any matching pattern from the string; or is it to ensure that only the desired pattern is present. If the latter, then your expression is appropriate. --ron |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:56:01 -0700, Joel
wrote: I though the ? represent any one character. That is incorrect. At least with VBScript flavor of Regular Expressions, as used in my expression, it indicates that the preceding (enclosed in parentheses (is optional). To be more precise, it matches the preceding character or subexpression zero or one time, so it is equivalent to {0,1} It can also indicate a non-greedy quantifier. --ron |
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:17:10 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:04:07 -0400, "Dana DeLouis" wrote: What I'm thinking is that maybe something like "A 123 k" might test True by ignoring the "A", and "ABC j 123 k" might test True by finding the pattern within a larger string. I guess one question which has not been answered is the reason for the regex. Is it to extract any matching pattern from the string; or is it to ensure that only the desired pattern is present. If the latter, then your expression is appropriate. --ron Reading the OP's post again (and looking at his macro), it does seem as if he wants to either match, or not match, the specific pattern. So your addition of ^ and $ would indeed be warranted. And it's also possible to detect the format without regular expressions: =============================== For Each c In rRng If c.Text Like "[JjXxZz] ### [A-Za-z]" Or _ c.Text Like "### [A-Za-z]" Then Debug.Print c.Text, "TRUE" Else Debug.Print c.Text, "FALSE" End If Next c ================================ --ron |
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