Regex help needed

14 Feb 2006 12:07 PM

circuit_breaker

Hi,

I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the variable
name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex expression would
operate as follows:

05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)

would become:
WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

Thanks in advance.

14 Feb 2006 12:14 PM

Larry Lard

circuit_breaker wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the variable
> name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex expression would
> operate as follows:
>
> 05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)
>
> would become:
> WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

If I remember my COBOL right, the level number is always two digits,
and variable names aren't allowed spaces. This quickly gives us

\s*\d\d\s*(\S*)\s*.*

which reads:
some whitespace
a digit
a digit
some whitespace
any number of non-whitespace characters <------ remember this part of
the match
some whitespace
anything else

--
Larry Lard
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14 Feb 2006 2:39 PM

Armin Zingler

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"circuit_breaker" <circuit_brea***@canada.com> schrieb
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the
> variable name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex
> expression would operate as follows:
>
> 05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)
>
> would become:
> WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

I don't see the relation to the VB.Net language. RegEx are a part of the
Framework. Better place to ask: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework. You'll
benefit from all the none-VB-ers, too.

Armin

15 Feb 2006 2:00 AM

Homer J Simpson

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"Armin Zingler" <az.nospam@freenet.de> wrote in message
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> "circuit_breaker" <circuit_brea***@canada.com> schrieb
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the
>> variable name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex
>> expression would operate as follows:
>>
>> 05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)
>>
>> would become:
>> WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

> I don't see the relation to the VB.Net language. RegEx are a part of the
> Framework. Better place to ask: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework. You'll
> benefit from all the none-VB-ers, too.

Or

^\([! ]*\) \([! ]*\) ?*

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