RE: Need help with a regex pattern

Thanks John. I was looking at that trying to figure out how the ACCT part
became variable and how I would replace it.

You are correct. My problem is not the expression itself but how to change
the expression to switch the variable value without recompiling it every
time.

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 11:56 AM
To: RPG programming on IBM i <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Need help with a regex pattern

I am programmatically searching source for variable names and this
regex eliminates anything with a valid variable name char before or
after the variable. For example, if I am searching for ACCT, this
would eliminate
ACCT01 or EXPACCT but not ACCT, or ACCT)

Will this work?

(?:\s+)ACCT(?:[^\w_@#\$]+)

You've quoted the part of the problem that he's already "solved", and your
"solution" doesn't meet his needs as well as his own (which he already
provided up front). What he's really after is in the next
paragraph:

It is my understanding that I need to compile the expression into a
pattern and then use that pattern to compare to my string. However,
as you can see from the original above, there is a variable value in
the middle of my expression.

John Y.
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