Re: [Regexp] Q: calling functions with the match ?

[Wes Biggs]

Mark --

This has been discussed and some interfaces have been proposed, but the 
functionality is currently not available in gnu.regexp.

Of course, you've got the source, so if you need to make match() public, 
be my guest. :-)

Wes

Mark Müller wrote:
> hi all,
> i use the following code to pre process a xml file to make it "more" xml
> conform:
>
>     FileInputStream f = new FileInputStream(fileName);
>     InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(f);
>     RE re = new gnu.regexp.RE("<(br|b|i|tt|BR|B|I|TT)>");
>     REFilterReader fr = new REFilterReader(isr, re, "&lt;$1&gt;");
>     RE re2 = new gnu.regexp.RE("</(br|b|i|tt|BR|B|I|TT)>");
>     REFilterReader fr2 = new REFilterReader(fr, re2, "&lt;/$1&gt;");
>
> I would also like to encode special characters like i would do it with
> perl:
>
>     $content =~ s/([\176-\377])/ '&#' . ord($1) . ';'/esg;
>
> Is it possible with the java gnu regexp package to call a function with
> the match?
> I tried to write a sub class of the REFilterReader which does something
> but the members like match are not visible to public...
>
> Best Regards,
> Mark