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TarkenKalia
Newbie
Joined: 25 Jan 2008
Posts: 7
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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:35 pm
Pattern Matching/Exclusion
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Ok, so I have a trick pattern matching here. I want to take a pattern, extract only letters and do something with it. Example:
The WND Juggernaut ¿B?L¿O?O¿D?Y¿K?E¿E?L¿
I want it to take ¿B?L¿O?O¿D?Y¿K?E¿E?L¿ part and extract only the letters...so I was thinking something like:
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| #TRIGGER {^The ??? {juggernaut|blah|blah} ([a-z, ' '])} {#var shipname %1}} |
The WND part can change as well as the juggernaut, but thats not the issue. Yet that doesn't work. Is some sort of nasty regex needed or is there a way to ignore characters other than letters in a pattern and store it to a variable?
I don't know perl but someone said use something along the lines of
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| $shipname =~ s/[\*\+=\(\)\&\^\%\$\#\@\!\[\]\{\}+]//g; |
but I wouldn't know what to do with that at all.
Any ideas? |
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Fang Xianfu
GURU
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5155
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:49 pm
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Eh, there's not an easy way to get the characters out with a pattern, but you can do it easily with the %subchar function or the %replace function once you've matched it. So:
#trig {^The ??? {whatever|Juggernaut} (.+)} {#var shipname %subchar(%1, "?")} |
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