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Re: how to get this type of regex matching happening (using AGRegex)?
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Re: how to get this type of regex matching happening (using AGRegex)?


  • Subject: Re: how to get this type of regex matching happening (using AGRegex)?
  • From: Ben Dougall <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:04:55 +0000

On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 06:24 pm, Aram Greenman wrote:

AGRegex *regex = [[AGRegex alloc] initWithPattern:@"anchor
((\\w)\\s*)*"];

example input text 1:
anchor a b c d

hoped for array from example text 1:
a
b
c
d


Each set of parentheses only remembers the last occurrence of the subpattern. You'll probably have to use two regexes.

AGRegex *re1 = [AGRegex regexWithPattern:@"anchor (((\\w)\\s*)*)"];
NSString *s = [[re1 findInString:@"anchor a b c d"] groupAtIndex:1];

// s should now be "a b c d"

AGRegex *re2 = [AGRegex regexWithPattern:@"(\w)\\s*"];
NSArray *matches = [re2 findAllInString:s];

// matches is an array of AGRegexMatches
matches[0] = {"a ", "a"}
matches[1] = {"b ", "b"}
matches[2] = {"c ", "c"}
matches[3] = {"d", "d"}


I'm guessing this is probably a simplified example of what you really want to do,

yes -- wanted to illustrate the general regex problem that i've come across of fixed storage for results from capture brackets, in conjunction with looping the capture brackets in the regex -- i was hoping and thought there might be a way to get accumulation of the results happening from within the regex pattern as much as possible (as in a single pattern), rather than also using extra obj-c or/and further patterns.

ok, will give your suggested way a go.
thanks-a-lot, ben.
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