Re: Perl-like regexp support ?

[Pascal A. Dupuis]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:12:54PM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> Pascal, 
> 
> Are you aware of the "regexp" command in octave-forge. It doesn't
> quite have the interface you describe, but it is close...
> 

Didn't know , better turn 7 times the keyboard into my mouth before
speaking ...

OTOH, where can I find the doc about extended regexp ? I tried for
instance:

msg= 'INSERT INTO Tbl values (12, 16, 20);';
octave> [match, order, keyword, value]= regexp('(.*?)(values)(.*)', msg)
match =

   1  36
   1  16
  17  22
  23  36

order = INSERT INTO Tbl 
keyword = values
value =  (12, 16, 20);

so far so good, but then:

match= regexp('([:digit:]+)', data)
doesn't work, although this follows the regexp syntax given in grep manual

match= regexp('(\D*)(\d+)(.)', data)
doesn't work either, I suppose \d and \D are perl-specific (digit, not
digit)

and the correct way is :

[match, before, Id]= regexp('([^0-9]*)([0-9]+)', data)
match =

  1  4
  2  2
  3  4

before = (
Id = 12

Thanks for the reply

Pascal Dupuis

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