RegEx to parse something like this...

Say i have text that has many tags which are enclosed within curly
braces. For example,

"asdlghjkshkg {HOHO} ghk48975 83y4, c98ty34 {NANA} fshdjh348679njc
{ASDF} jdgghkjwer 435"

Say I want to write a RegEx to extract all of these tags. I thought
perhaps something like "(?[^{]*){([^}]*)})+" might work, but it does
not seem to... strangely, it still matches the entire string, but i
cannot get it to properly return all of the submatches.

Any help would be appreciated.

Check out the answer to this question on Dec 20, 2004.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...07ef0086240f46

HTH,
Gary Brown

"R Avery" wrote:

> Say i have text that has many tags which are enclosed within curly
> braces. For example,
>
> "asdlghjkshkg {HOHO} ghk48975 83y4, c98ty34 {NANA} fshdjh348679njc
> {ASDF} jdgghkjwer 435"
>
> Say I want to write a RegEx to extract all of these tags. I thought
> perhaps something like "(?[^{]*){([^}]*)})+" might work, but it does
> not seem to... strangely, it still matches the entire string, but i
> cannot get it to properly return all of the submatches.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

Hi,

This should populate your Matches collection with the proper strings (I don't
know what you do with your results afterwards).

Set regEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp") ' Create a reg expr.
regEx.Pattern = "\{[^{]*\}" ' Set pattern.
regEx.IgnoreCase = True ' Set case insensitivity.
regEx.Global = True ' Set global applicability.
Set Matches = regEx.Execute(YourStringToProcess) ' Execute search.
' you can concatenate here

Regards,

Daniel M.


"R Avery" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Say i have text that has many tags which are enclosed within curly
> braces. For example,
>
> "asdlghjkshkg {HOHO} ghk48975 83y4, c98ty34 {NANA} fshdjh348679njc
> {ASDF} jdgghkjwer 435"
>
> Say I want to write a RegEx to extract all of these tags. I thought
> perhaps something like "(?[^{]*){([^}]*)})+" might work, but it does
> not seem to... strangely, it still matches the entire string, but i
> cannot get it to properly return all of the submatches.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


Gary Brown wrote:
> Check out the answer to this question on Dec 20, 2004.
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...07ef0086240f46
>
> HTH,
> Gary Brown
>
> "R Avery" wrote:
>
>
>>Say i have text that has many tags which are enclosed within curly
>>braces. For example,
>>
>>"asdlghjkshkg {HOHO} ghk48975 83y4, c98ty34 {NANA} fshdjh348679njc
>>{ASDF} jdgghkjwer 435"
>>
>>Say I want to write a RegEx to extract all of these tags. I thought
>>perhaps something like "(?[^{]*){([^}]*)})+" might work, but it does
>>not seem to... strangely, it still matches the entire string, but i
>>cannot get it to properly return all of the submatches.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>