regex

[boris bass]

the following is the text string i am trying to match


bgColor=#ffffff

and i constructed the following regular expr


while ( $content =~ /=\s*[^"]#\w{6}[^"]/ )


and it doesnt seem to be working


I am actually trying to match from the equal sign and rightward, i.e.
match equal sign followed by zero or more whitespaces followed by the
pound sign followed by exactly six alphanumerics and NOT QUOTED -

NOT QUOTED is the whole point of a match

any suggestions appriciated

 

[Tad McClellan]

the following is the text string i am trying to match

bgColor=#ffffff

I am actually trying to match from the equal sign and rightward, i.e.
match equal sign followed by zero or more whitespaces followed by the
pound sign followed by exactly six alphanumerics and NOT QUOTED -

NOT QUOTED is the whole point of a match

/=\s*#\w{6}/
or
/=\s*#\w{6}(?!")/

 

[John W. Krahn]

the following is the text string i am trying to match

bgColor=#ffffff

and i constructed the following regular expr

while ( $content =~ /=\s*[^"]#\w{6}[^"]/ )

and it doesnt seem to be working

I am actually trying to match from the equal sign and rightward, i.e.
match equal sign followed by zero or more whitespaces followed by the
pound sign followed by exactly six alphanumerics and NOT QUOTED -

NOT QUOTED is the whole point of a match

any suggestions appriciated

$ perl -le'
for ( q/bgColor=#ffffff/, q/bgColor="#ffffff"/, q/ bgColor = #ffffff /, q/ bgColor = "#ffffff" / ) {
print if /=\s*(?<!")#[[:xdigit:]]{6}(?!")/;
}
'
bgColor=#ffffff
bgColor = #ffffff



John

 

[Eric J. Roode]

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(e-mail address removed) (boris bass) wrote in @posting.google.com:

the following is the text string i am trying to match


bgColor=#ffffff

and i constructed the following regular expr


while ( $content =~ /=\s*[^"]#\w{6}[^"]/ )

The problem is that

[^"]

matches "exactly one character that is not a quote". So it requires one
non-quote character between the optional whitespace and the # symbol.

You really don't need the [^"] business. If you are matching on \w{6},
it'll match six word characters; any quotes would cause the match to fail
anyhow.

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Eric
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