Ignore quoted text in reg exp

[nick]

I can't seem to figure out how to ignore quoted text in a regular
expression. For example, I would like a reg exp to match 1-3, but not
4:

my name is nick
my "string"name"string" is nick
my "text" name "text" is nick
my "name" is nick

Is this even possible?

Thanks for any help.

Nick

 

[Bigus]

I can't seem to figure out how to ignore quoted text in a regular
expression. For example, I would like a reg exp to match 1-3, but not
4:

my name is nick
my "string"name"string" is nick
my "text" name "text" is nick
my "name" is nick

Well, you could do something like this:

@str = (
'my name is nick',
'my "string"name"string" is nick',
'my "text" name "text" is nick',
'my "name" is nick'
);

foreach (@str) {
($temp = $_) =~ s/".*?"//g;
if ($temp =~ /my.*name.*is.*nick/i) { print "found in $_\n"; }
};

What that is doing is using a temp variable to hold the contents of $_ (so
as to avoid wrecking your original array), remove anything in quotes and
then search for 'my name is nick'.

Bigus

 

[nick]

Well, you could do something like this:

@str = (
'my name is nick',
'my "string"name"string" is nick',
'my "text" name "text" is nick',
'my "name" is nick'
);

foreach (@str) {
($temp = $_) =~ s/".*?"//g;
if ($temp =~ /my.*name.*is.*nick/i) { print "found in $_\n"; }
};

What that is doing is using a temp variable to hold the contents of $_ (so
as to avoid wrecking your original array), remove anything in quotes and
then search for 'my name is nick'.

Bigus

Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't really work for my purposes. (Well,
it might, but it would end up getting messy.) I need to search in the
original string since I'm doing some replacing. I am hoping there is a
clean way to do this.

What I'm doing is searching for the tag <script runat="server"> and
replacing it with <TAG><script runat="server"></TAG>. However, the
runat="server" cannot be quoted, as in <script 'runat="server"'>.
There can also be other parameters in the runat tag, such as <script
language="jscript" runat="server">. In this case the replacement would
be <TAG><script language="jscript" runat="server"></TAG>. So, I can't
simply strip out the quoted text.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Nick

 

[Eric J. Roode]

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(e-mail address removed) (nick) wrote in

What I'm doing is searching for the tag <script runat="server"> and
replacing it with <TAG><script runat="server"></TAG>. However, the
runat="server" cannot be quoted, as in <script 'runat="server"'>.
There can also be other parameters in the runat tag, such as <script
language="jscript" runat="server">. In this case the replacement would
be <TAG><script language="jscript" runat="server"></TAG>. So, I can't
simply strip out the quoted text.

Any ideas?

If you're parsing HTML(XML), use a module for parsing HTML(XML). Regexes
are going to be a lot of work for that task, and will likely not handle
all the cases you need it to.

Also, it seems very strange that you're putting a tag pair around just a
start tag.

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