RE: experimenting with REGEX

Well according to this
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/regextutorial.aspx
it was supposed to look for a phone number.

But I'm going to try what you suggested.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:08 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: experimenting with REGEX

hi Mike,

What is ' \b\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d' supposed to do? I've never seen an RE that
looks like that before.

I would've expected an RE to look more like this:
'[0-9]*[ -_]*[0-9]*'



On 1/20/2012 12:56 PM, Smith, Mike wrote:

I am attempting to use a regex from rpg.
Ideally I want to create a regex to look for patterns of numbers, such as 9 consecutive numbers, or 999-99-9999, or 999 or 99999_9999 or 9999_99999
The separator can be anything.

To start testing I tried this (this was an example regex I found to look for a phone number). I have plenty of phone numbers in the file.

scpattern = ' \b\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d' ;

rc = regcomp(reg:
%trimr(scPattern):
REG_BASIC+REG_ICASE+REG_NOSUB) ;

Read record

rc = regexec(reg:
SCCOM:5:match:0)


if rc<> 0
callp regerror(rc: reg:
%addr(buf): %size(buf))
scMsg = %str(%addr(buf))
else
except det
endif

then loop and read next record

All I ever get for RC is 1 on my regexec
RC is 0 when on regcomp.


Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Any idea how to make a regex for my scenario.?
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