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by **Bego** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:26 am

Hi all,

I try to create a Perl regexp search to allocate the spots in files that contain a line with the string

Code: Select all: ".ObjekteListe().Rows"

that is NOT followed by

Code: Select all: "obj.ObjektFuerBesicherung"

anywhere in the next 10 lines.

Can this be done with one regexp? Or do I need to write a fat macro?

Thanks for any tips.

Bego

by **pietzcker** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:23 pm

Let's try

Code: Select all: "\.ObjekteListe\.Rows".*\r\n(?!(?:(?:(?!"obj\.ObjektFuerBesicherung").)*$\r\n){10})

No time right now for an explanation, will follow up if the regex works as desired

Cheers,
Tim

by **Bego** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:22 pm

Hi Tim !

I tried it out but it did not find anything. So I reduced the problem a bit and cut out the " that I THINK are wrong and came to sth. like this:

Code: Select all: AAAAA.*\r\n(?!(?:(?:(?!XXXXX).)*$\r\n){10})

I tried with these testlines and found both AAAAA lines instead of only the first occurrence in line 2:

Code: Select all: hkjh lskd hkghjjgjlks lhdhd dfdg AAAAA fdg d FIND THIS LINE BECAUSE NO 5-X NEAR blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt blubb besicherung sdkfj sdlkjaflöksja öskfdj sk blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt blubb besicherung sdkfj sdlkjaflöksja öskfdj sk blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt blubb besicherung sdkfj sdlkjaflöksja öskfdj sk blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt blubb besicherung sdkfj sdlkjaflöksja öskfdj sk dfdg AAAAA fdg d DO NOT FIND THIS LINE, 5 - x is near blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt blubb besicherung sdkfj sdlkjaflöksja öskfdj sk g klfsdglskh XXXXX d gh jh blibla blubb sdflökjsdaf iobjekt

We are near ...

Gruss Bego

by **pietzcker** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:34 pm

Ah, you're right. There was a "double negation" that screwed it up. How about

Code: Select all: AAAAA.*\r\n(?=(?:^(?:(?!XXXXX).)*$\r\n){10})

This has one drawback: If there are less than 10 lines after AAAAA until EOF, it won't match even if there's no XXXXX in those lines.

by **Bego** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:38 pm

EOF drawback wont really mind.
But still this one finds both AAAAA ...

by **Bego** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:43 pm

STOP !!!

Just figured out that I used the wrong hard disc having 14.20 on it.
Works well with 15.10.0.1017 I normally work on.

Thanks Tim !!

by **pietzcker** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:02 am

The funny thing is that I think I found a bug in RegexBuddy with this regex. It highlights the second AAAAA although it shouldn't, and when I debug the regex, the debugger reports a failed match attempt. Will have to dig further into this... (and maybe find out a more elegant solution)?

Tim

by **pietzcker** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:49 am

There actually was a bug in RegexBuddy which is now fixed. So thanks again for providing us with that interesting problem

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