Fw: RegExp I give up

My apologies, I just signed up for this list, so I can't preserve the
continuity of the thread.

The ILE C Runtime on IBM i follows the XBD specification for regular
expressions, defined here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xbd/re.html

The problem with your regular expression is the use of the '\w' and '\W'
specifiers. These specifiers do not exist in the XBD regular expression
specification. If these specifiers are used like they are in PERL, '\w'
means any word character, and '\W' means any non-word character, so '[\w
\W]' would be equivalent to '.'. Alternatively you could use the character
class expressions (like [:alpha:] which would match any alphabetic
character). Here are two adaptations of your expression that would work on
IBM i:

"^(MDB)[-[:alpha:][:blank:]]*(Final.PDF|Final.pdf)$"
"^(MDB).*(Final.PDF|Final.pdf)$"

I hope that helps.

Aaron Albertson
IBM Rochester, MN 55901


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On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 08:04 -0700, Spencer Elliott wrote:

Hi,
I have the following regular expression:
^(MDB)[\w\W]*(Final.PDF|Final.pdf)$

I am familiar with \w as shorthand for [_A-Za-z0-9] and the web site you
cite below accepts space or hyphen and I know not what else for \W.
Anyway, the expression
[-A-Za-z0-9_ ]+
matches the middle part of your test input.

This expression test as true against the following string:
MDB MO3-09 Final.PDF
at http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html

I run the same expression and string through the iSeries RegExp APIs and
it fails(returns 1).

Does anyone have any idea where there is a online test that matches the
IBM APIs or can figure out what I am doing incorrectly?

Even a quick reference guide to the details on the iSeries would be a
help. I am sure I am just overlooking it, but it is frustrating to be
reduced to experimentation.

Cheers,
Terry.

BTW: The OCEAN conference was great!

My program works with another expression to test email addresses.
^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}$

Thanks,
Spencer


---snip---
/*---( Compile pattern )---*/
rc = regcomp(&preg, wrkPattern, REG_EXTENDED);
if (rc != 0) {
regerror(rc, &preg, errMsg, sizeof(errMsg));
PatError(100, (char *) pattern, (char *) errMsg);

regfree(&preg);

if (matchString != inpString) {
free((void *) matchString);
matchString = NULL;
}
return (0);
}

/*---( Run Pattern )---*/
if ( (rc = regexec(&preg, matchString, nmatch, pmatch, 0)) != 0 ) {
regerror(rc, &preg, errMsg, sizeof(errMsg));
---snip---

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