Hi,
You could try to replace the blank character by ' myPrefix' (not the
blank before myPrefix).
<propertyregex property="regexp.name"
input="Foo Bar Blah Blah"
regexp=" "
replace=" myPrefix"
global="true"
casesensitive="false" />
Patrick Martin
On 8/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks Ahmed it works for the sample string i provided.
> My question is how can you avoid special characters e.g instead of Foo Bar
> blabla , you have:
> input string=foo/bar.ext foo/some1.ext.
> The goal is to match the tokens separated by blank space and not words.
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> Thanks for any help!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Basel Ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Here's a code snippet that does what you'd like to do with
> <propertyregexp>.
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> <propertyregex property="regexp.name"
> input="Foo Bar Blah Blah"
> regexp="([A-Za-z]+)"
> replace="myPrefix\1"
> global="true"
> casesensitive="false" />
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> The result is:
> [echo] Regular expression is: myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo myPrefixFoo
> myPrefixFoo
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> Do you mean:
> <propertyregexp property="testprefix" regexp="\w*" replace="myPrefix"/>
> But then all the words would be replaced by the prefix , no?
> Forgive me i ama beginner in regular expressions:)
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >Hello guys;
> >I would like some help for the following.
> >Using <propertyregexp> how would you perform the following:
> >
> >input string="Foo Bar Jeff Blabla"
> >replacing prefix="myPrefix"
> >result string="myPrefixFoo myPrefixBar myPrefixJeff myPrefixBlabla"
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> \w* should match every word or u could use the ^ method.
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> I normally use something like this to match words
> /\b([A-Za-z]+)\b
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