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[tclwebtest] Little problem with regex substitution

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ef...>]

I'm having a little regex problem:

[gradha@ws5:1] [~/tclwebtest]$ ./tclwebtest  cus.txt 

----- START: cus.txt at [29/ene/2003:19:25:46] -----
--- do_request for http://www.efaber.net/
http status: >>200<<

No link found that matches '{so[:alpha:].*s}'
in "cus.txt" line 3:
do_request http://www.efaber.net/

link find  "so\[:alpha:\].*s"

-----  FAILED: cus.txt (took 1s)               -----

DURATION: 1
1 of 1 tests FAILED:
cus.txt

I don't know how should I write the link find command so that I match
the expression 'so-one_alphanumeric_character-any_characters-s'. The
problem is with [:alpha:], if I don't escape it, it tries to be
executed, but if I escape it, it doesn't seem to work.

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Re: [tclwebtest] Little problem with regex substitution

[Tilmann S. <ti...@ti...>]

* Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gr...@ef...> [20030129 18:26]:
> I'm having a little regex problem:
> 
> link find  "so\[:alpha:\].*s"

The same rules as for tcl regexps as well: try to enclose in { } to
save [ ] etc. from the tcl interpreter. And in this particular case I
think you need to write {so[[:alpha:]].*s}. See 'man re_syntax'.

til


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Re: [tclwebtest] Little problem with regex substitution

[Grzegorz A. H. <gr...@ef...>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:15:55PM +0000, Tilmann Singer wrote:
> * Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gr...@ef...> [20030129 18:26]:
> > I'm having a little regex problem:
> > 
> > link find  "so\[:alpha:\].*s"
> 
> The same rules as for tcl regexps as well: try to enclose in { } to
> save [ ] etc. from the tcl interpreter. And in this particular case I
> think you need to write {so[[:alpha:]].*s}. See 'man re_syntax'.

Right. I was later trying {"so[[:alpha:]].*s"} but didn't notice
the double quotes.  "so\[\[:alpha:\]\].*s" works too, but it's not
very readable.