On Aug 30, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> Charles Yeomans wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Tom Russell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Charles Yeomans wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I need to parse some info from a web page but not sure how to
>>>>>> regEx
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Example would be:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> href="http://myworld.ebay.com/xxxxxxxxx/";>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I only need the stuff in the quotes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I assume my search pattern would be something like:
>>>>>> rg.SearchPattern="href="http:(\D+)>"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would this be correct?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> What happened when you tried it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Charles Yeomans
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Im getting a syntax error. I think my quotes are screwy
>>>>
>>> Fixed the quote issue. Found out Im doing my regex before the
>>> content
>>> loaded into my socket.
>>>
>>> It would probably be better to load my content into a string array
>>> rather than use the string itself? When I do my regex it pulls the
>>> first
>>> one it finds and its not even the one I want.
>>>
>>> plus Im getting part of what I want: //www.ebay.com"
>>>
>>
>> If you want to include quotes as part of the search string, use hex
>> -- \x22 is ".
>>
>> For what you want, I'd suggest starting with the search pattern
>>
>> \x22(.+)\x22
>>
>> and refine as needed. match.SubexpressionString(1) should give the
>> part inside the quotes.
>>
>>
> I am not sure what you mean here. Instead of using quotes, use
> this? And
> wrap my stuff in that?
>
> \x22(.+)href="http:(\D+)>\x22
\x22(.+)\x22 is the same as "(.+)"
Using the hex representation of " makes it clear as to which " are
part of the regular expression and which are for delimiting the
REALbasic string literal.
This regular expression will find anything that starts with " and
ends with ".
Charles Yeomans
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