Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:41:16 +0200
ik <ido...@gmail.com> wrote:
It looks for a date pattern like the follow
10/10/08 and 10/10/2008 with space and then some other chars as well.
I think if it was with boundaries of begin and/or end (^ and $) it
would work even better.
The () indicates groups. each group is the string extracted from the
pattern, and can be used (that's the /1/ and /2/ that he wrote).
This entire thingy called regular expression or regex for short.
Ido
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Marc Weustink <m...@dommelstein.net>
wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
There seem to be a number of people currently making outrageous
suggestions about missing features or how FPC could best be
repackaged and promoted, so since it's the season of good will I
trust that folk will tolerate this one from me.
There's been a recent thread in fpc-other on second languages, but
it appeared to focus more on what was a useful part of a
developer's skillset rather than what people miss from Pascal.
What /I/ miss is Perl's pattern matching, and I miss it to the
extent that in some of my own scripting stuff I've implemented it
myself:
IF cells[2, dateTime] = /(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/((\d\d)?\d\d)\s.*/i THEN
BEGIN
and now in plain english, what does it match ?
see also
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_regular_expressions
I know what regular expressions are, I know that when you are writing
them, you understand what you wanted to do, but 5 mins later you don't
know anymore what it meant, let alone how to debug.
(no it wasn't a serious question)
Marc
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