Hi there!
I’m Alessandro from Italy and I started using ruby some days ago,
so… Hello, Community! 
Well, I was trying to match a pattern multiple times. I tried both
with normal match() and scan(), but i can’t get the desired result.
The subject string is something like:
“1a2bend” or “beg1a2b3c4dend”
more generally, it should match /^beg(\d\w)end$/ : always a begin and
ending pattern, and a unspecified number of central pattern.
The problem is that the central pattern must be extracted for every
time it’s encountered.
For example, trying with
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan /^(x)(\d\w)(z)$/
returns
[[“x”, “4D”, “z”]]
while i need something like
[[“x”, “1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”, “z”]]
Why does ()* match just the last one? How can i get all the ()* that it
matches?
Probabily i’m doing something wrong, but can’t understand where :\
Thanks!
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
ending pattern, and a unspecified number of central pattern.
Probabily i’m doing something wrong, but can’t understand where :\
Try:
if “x1A2B3C4Dz” =~ /^(x)((?:\d\w)*)(z)$/
return [
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
ending pattern, and a unspecified number of central pattern.
Probabily i’m doing something wrong, but can’t understand where :\
Try:
if “x1A2B3C4Dz” =~ /^(x)((?:\d\w)*)(z)$/
a, b = $1, $3 #
return [a] + $2.scan(/\d\w/).flatten + [b]
end
I don’t know if it’s possible to do it in one run though, maybe you
could use split as well…
Take care when doing nested searches as they will overwrite $1…9
(that’s why I used a and b)
J.
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
For example, trying with
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan /^(x)(\d\w)*(z)$/
returns
[[“x”, “4D”, “z”]]
while i need something like
[[“x”, “1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”, “z”]]
Hi,
Try this.
str = “x1A2B3C4Dz”
p str.scan(/\d?\w/) #>[“x”, “1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”, “z”]
Harry
2007/7/31, Alessandro Re [email protected]:
Mh well, to me it seems a normal regex processing (i mean, it should
require only one instruction, since this pattern can be read with just
one regex, even if ruby doesn’t allow it… but it would be really
bad).
Anyway well, splitting it there are different ways to do it - thanks
for your sudjestion.
But if ruby make it possible with one call, i’d prefer to use it.
irb(main):006:0> s=“x1A2B3C4Dz”
=> “x1A2B3C4Dz”
irb(main):007:0> s.scan /x(\d\w)z/
=> [[“4D”]]
irb(main):008:0> s.scan /x((?:\d\w)?)z/
=> [[“1A2B3C4D”]]
irb(main):009:0> s.scan(/x((?:\d\w)*?)z/).map {|a| a[0].scan(/\d\w/)}
=> [[“1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”]]
Kind regards
robert
Mh well, to me it seems a normal regex processing (i mean, it should
require only one instruction, since this pattern can be read with just
one regex, even if ruby doesn’t allow it… but it would be really
bad).
Anyway well, splitting it there are different ways to do it - thanks
for your sudjestion.
But if ruby make it possible with one call, i’d prefer to use it.
Thanks!
Thanks, this is an interesting solution!
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
Mh well, to me it seems a normal regex processing (i mean, it should
require only one instruction, since this pattern can be read with just
one regex, even if ruby doesn’t allow it… but it would be really bad).
seems like you have a pattern within a pattern.
it may be easy to unwrap outer pattern first, then work on the inner
pattern. something like,
irb(main):096:0> “lol1a2vasd”.scan(/lol(.+)asd/).to_s.scan(/\d\w/)
=> [“1a”, “2v”]
irb(main):097:0> “beg1a2vend”.scan(/beg(.+)end/).to_s.scan(/\d\w/)
=> [“1a”, “2v”]
irb(main):098:0>
“beg1a2vendxbeg3c4dend”.scan(/beg(.+)end/).to_s.scan(/\d\w/)
=> [“1a”, “2v”, “3c”, “4d”]
is that ok?
kind regards -botp
Thanks, but i need to match the pattern OR don’t match anything.
“lol1a2vasd”.scan(/\d?\w/) => [“l”, “o”, “l”, “1a”, “2v”, “a”, “s”, “d”]
while i need to be sure that the pattern begins with a regex “x” and
ends with “z”
(of course, x 1 a 2 b 3 c should be regexes not just chars)
thanks, you help is apreciated 
Alessandro Re wrote:
For example, trying with
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan /^(x)(\d\w)*(z)$/
returns
[[“x”, “4D”, “z”]]
while i need something like
[[“x”, “1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”, “z”]]
Does this goes more into the direction you wanted:
irb(main):001:0> “x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan
/(?:^(?:x)|\G)(\d\w)(?=(?:\d\w)*(?:z)$)/
=> [[“1A”], [“2B”], [“3C”], [“4D”]]
???
Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
while i need to be sure that the pattern begins with a regex “x” and
ends with “z”
(of course, x 1 a 2 b 3 c should be regexes not just chars)
Sorry, I misunderstood what you wanted.
Is this more like it?
str = “lol1a2vasd”
m = /^(\w{3})(.*)(\w{3})$/.match(str).captures
m[1] = m[1].scan(/\d\w/)
p m.flatten #> [“lol”,“1a”,“2v”,“asd”]
Harry
On 31.07.2007 17:18, Alessandro Re wrote:
But if ruby make it possible with one call, i’d prefer to use it.
irb(main):006:0> s=“x1A2B3C4Dz”
=> “x1A2B3C4Dz”
irb(main):007:0> s.scan /x(\d\w)z/
=> [[“4D”]]
irb(main):008:0> s.scan /x((?:\d\w)?)z/
=> [[“1A2B3C4D”]]
irb(main):009:0> s.scan(/x((?:\d\w)*?)z/).map {|a| a[0].scan(/\d\w/)}
=> [[“1A”, “2B”, “3C”, “4D”]]
Give special attention to my usage of the reluctant qualifier which is
mandatory if your input contains multiple begin end pairs.
Kind regards
robert
PS: please do not top post.
Alessandro Re wrote:
…but i still think that one regex would have been nicer
I don’t think, that this will be “nice”…
irb(main):001:0>
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan(/(?:\G|^(?:x))(x|\d\w|z)(?=(?:\d\w)*(?:z|)$)/)
=> [[“x”], [“1A”], [“2B”], [“3C”], [“4D”], [“z”]]
…, and I didn’t test it aganst wrong lines, but after a “flatten” it
ends up with the required result.
Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
On 8/1/07, Harry K. [email protected] wrote:
m = /^(\w{3})(.*)(\w{3})$/.match(str).captures
m[1] = m[1].scan(/\d\w/)
p m.flatten #> [“lol”,“1a”,“2v”,“asd”]
Harry
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Yep, it’s like this.
I solved using 2 instructions as you did: first matching extern words,
then the middle ones, but i still think that one regex would have been
nicer 
Thanks guys
On 8/2/07, Wolfgang Nádasi-donner [email protected] wrote:
irb(main):001:0>
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan(/(?:\G|^(?:x))(x|\d\w|z)(?=(?:\d\w)*(?:z|)$)/)
=> [[“x”], [“1A”], [“2B”], [“3C”], [“4D”], [“z”]]
Wonderful
Thanks!
2007/8/4, Alessandro Re [email protected]:
On 8/2/07, Wolfgang Nádasi-donner [email protected] wrote:
irb(main):001:0>
“x1A2B3C4Dz”.scan(/(?:\G|^(?:x))(x|\d\w|z)(?=(?:\d\w)*(?:z|)$)/)
=> [[“x”], [“1A”], [“2B”], [“3C”], [“4D”], [“z”]]
Wonderful
Thanks!
But this does not seem to work with strings that contain multiple
sections:
irb(main):002:0>
“x1A2B3C4Dz1a”.scan(/(?:\G|^(?:x))(x|\d\w|z)(?=(?:\d\w)*(?:z|)$)/)
=> []
So it’s not suited for a one RX approach and still need two levels of
RX. If that’s the case then we have seen simpler solutions for that.
(Btw, one reason why it’s so awkward is that there is no lookbehind in
Ruby 1.8 - but this will change.)
Kind regards
robert
Robert K. wrote:
(Btw, one reason why it’s so awkward is that there is no lookbehind in
Ruby 1.8 - but this will change.)
I am waiting for this Christmas gift too…
Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner
On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re [email protected] wrote:
Thanks, but i need to match the pattern OR don’t match anything.
“lol1a2vasd”.scan(/\d?\w/) => [“l”, “o”, “l”, “1a”, “2v”, “a”, “s”, “d”]
while i need to be sure that the pattern begins with a regex “x” and
ends with “z”
str = “lol1a2vasd”
p str.scan(/\d\w|\w{3}/)
Harry
