Regular Expressions & Replace Method
Problem: I want to check the data from a RecordSet.GetString result for today's date. If today's date exists in the row then I want to replace the preceeding <tr> tag with a <tr style='background:grey'>. I made the following objRegExp.Pattern:
.Pattern= "<tr><td><font size='1'>[w]*</font></td><td><font size='1'>[w]*</font></td><td><font size='1'>" & FormatDateTime(now(),vbShortDate)
This successfully identifies the row as containing today's date. Yea! Now, the replace part.
text = objRegExp.Replace(text,"<tr style='background:grey'><td><font size='1'></font></td><td><font size='1'></font></td><td><font size='1'>" & FormatDateTime(now(),vbShortDate))
This piece works except I lose the data that was actually contained in each cell. How can I have it so that the only thing that gets replaced is the table row tag?
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Been pounding on this for an hour and eating up my day's productivity, so I thought I'd throw a question out there. (I'm also reading through the Google archives to try to find this answer...)
Windows 2000 Small Business Server
Using regular expressions for the first time, and having difficulty with the replace method. We're searching through a list of vehicle models, trying to replace what we get from the client data with correctly propercased text...ie..we get FORD F150 and replace it with Ford F150; CHEVROLET ES 300 and replace it with Chrevrolet ES 300; ACURA MDX >> Acura MDX. The usual propercase algorithms don't work because of the multiple capitals in some of the model names: we don't want Acura Mdx.
The test method always works. The problem we're having is that, under certain circumstances, the replace method is replacing too much. We've created a table of capitals as they relate to models: ES; MDX; XL; SL; and so on. The pattern we're using is this: ....
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I cant seem to work out a regular expression to do this. So, for example.
This is an example line. You can see how it would work. would create
This is an example line.<br /><br />You can see how it would work.
and
<h2>The Heading</h2>
This is an example line.
You can see how it would work.
would create
<h2>The Heading</h2>This is an example line.<br /><br />You can see how it would work.
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I have seen a few problems on MSDN with users not getting the right
permissions for some dll's so I went through the procedures trying to
correct that. I've seen the RegExp values in the registry. Even had a
friend of mine try the script on his machine. (mind you this comes
directly from MS) I cannot get New RegExp to work at all
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interspersed with these tags. Now what I need to do is get a list of
the words/phrases that are within these tags. So in my list I would
get dogs, this is a cat etc..
I've tried a combination of mid, instr and replace and got it sort of
working but there's got to be a more efficient way of doing it.
Possibly using regular expressions?
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Am I wasting my time trying to get it to work (i.e. does it support them?) If so, how do I use them? Does it have its own quirky syntax or "standard" regexp? Every example I've found so far just mentions deleting something simple like *.txt.
For the record, I need to "tidy up" a directory full of images by deleting files whose names _don't_ contain particular text. It's quite convoluted and would be far easier if I could just go through each file one by one but hey. Here are the details:
1) I have a list of IDs in an array that I've read from a data source. This is the "current ID" list
2) I have a list of image filenames from a directory in another array. The image filenames contain an ID in them. There could be none, one or more images containing the same ID.
3) I look at each file in turn, extract the ID portion and add it to an array of "found" IDs - crucially, this array is only updated if the ID has not been seen before in another filename
4) I then step through this array and use Filter() to see if the ID is in the "current ID" list somewhere
5) If it is missing from the list, that ID is deemed "out of date" and all associated images containing that ID need to be deleted. Message to screen saying that ID has been deleted.
6) If it is in the list, just print a message saying it is "current" and move on.
I realise I could just step through each file and test it against the current ID list but then the output on-screen would be file-by-file and not ID-by-ID. The client doesn't care how many files there are; they don't even care about the underlying structure - they just point the browser to my script and it deletes the files, shows them which IDs have been removed and tells them how many IDs in total have been deleted.
If I went down that route I would have to keep a record of which IDs I've deleted and output the lot at the end instead of 1 by 1 as I go, which leaves the browser hanging for a while and doesn't give the client reassuring feedback as it ploughs through the directory adding the results to the screen row by row. Code:
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regular expression object. My reg expression right now is as follows:
[a-z]+.[a-z]+.[a-z]+/
And if find URL's no problem like: windowsupdate.microsoft.com,
www.cnn.com, etc.
But I need to also find any URL, like these:
www.amazon.com/books/atoz/index.html
OR
msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx
Some URL with a deeper path than something.something.com if that makes
sense. Any ideas?
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Right now I have:
Code:
Set RegularExpressionObject = New RegExp
With RegularExpressionObject
.Pattern = "$(.*)"
.IgnoreCase = True
.Global = True
End With
xmlText = RegularExpressionObject.Replace(xmlText,"")
Set RegularExpressionObject = Nothing
which obeously doesn't work. What should I use for:
.Pattern = "$(.*)"
??
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Now I need a way to be able to edit the script, well the RE Pattern so I can use it for other things. Code:
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I have a problem. Of course, or I wouldn't be posting here. Ok, now that Mr. Obvious is out of the way ...
I'm looking for some ideas. Take a look at the code below. I'm looking for the most efficient way to validate form field input on the server-side. I'll provide what I have. What I'm looking for are improvements.
<%
Function Validate_Input(Expression,Pattern)
Dim objRegExp
if Expression <> "" and Pattern <> "" then
Set objRegExp = New RegExp
select case (Pattern)
case "US_PHONE"
' sample matches: 1-(123)-123-1234 / 123 123 1234 / 1-800-ALPHNUM
' sample non-matches: 1.123.123.1234 / (123)-1234-123 / 123-1234
objRegExp.Pattern= "^([0-9]( |-)?)?((?[0-9]{3})?|[0-9]{3})( |-)?([0-9]{3}( |-)?[0-9]{4}|[a-zA-Z0-9]{7})$"
case "US_DATE"
' sample matches: 02/29/2084 / 01/31/2000 / 11/30/2000
' sample non-matches: 02/29/2083 / 11/31/2000 / 01/32/2000
objRegExp.Pattern= "(((0[13578]|10|12)([-./])(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])([-./])(d{4}))|((0[469]|11)([-./])([0][1-9]|[12][0-9]|30)([-./])(d{4}))|((2)([-./])(0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-8])([-./])(d{4}))|((2)(.|-|/)(29)([-./])([02468][048]00))|((2)([-./])(29)([-./])([13579][26]00))|((2)([-./])(29)([-./])([0-9][0-9][0][48]))|((2)([-./])(29)([-./])([0-9][0-9][2468][048]))|((2)([-./])(29)([-./])([0-9][0-9][13579][26])))"
case "EMAIL_ADDRESS"
' sample matches: asmith@mactec.com / foo12@foo.edu / bob.smith@foo.tv
' sample non-matches: joe / @foo.com / a@a
objRegExp.Pattern= "^([a-zA-Z0-9_-.47]+)@(([[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9-]+.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,7}|[0-9]{1,3})(]?)$"
'The next line is supposed to be an RFC 2822 address compliant validation expression
'objRegExp.Pattern= "^(?:[w!#$\%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+.)*[w!#$\%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+@(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-](?!.)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-](?!$)){0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]?)|(?:[(?:(?:[01]?d{1,2}|2[0-4]d|25[0-5]).){3}(?:[01]?d{1,2}|2[0-4]d|25[0-5])]))$
case "ZIP"
' sample matches: 78754 / 78754-1234 / G3H 6A3
' sample non-matches: 78754-12aA / 7875A / g3h6a3
objRegExp.Pattern= "^(d{5}-d{4}|d{5})$|^([a-zA-Z]d[a-zA-Z] d[a-zA-Z]d)$"
case "CREDIT_CARD"
' sample matches: 6011-1111-1111-1111 / 5423-1111-1111-1111 / 341111111111111
' sample non-matches: 4111-111-111-111 / 3411-1111-1111-111 / Visa
objRegExp.Pattern= "^((4d{3})|(5[1-5]d{2})|(6011))-?d{4}-?d{4}-?d{4}|3[4,7]d{13}$"
case "NAME"
' sample matches: T.F. Johnson / John O'Neil / Mary-Kate Johnson
' sample non-matches: sam_johnson / Joe--Bob Jones / dfjsd0rd
objRegExp.Pattern= "^[a-zA-Z]+(([',.- ][a-zA-Z ])?[a-zA-Z]*)*$"
case "ADDRESS"
' sample matches: 2222 Mock St. / 1 A St. / 555-1212
' sample non-matches: [A Street] / (3 A St.) / {34 C Ave.}
objRegExp.Pattern= "^[a-zA-Z0-9s.-]+$"
case "CURRENCY"
' sample matches: $3,023,123.34 / 9,876,453 / 123456.78
' sample non-matches: 4,33,234.34 / $1.234 / abc
objRegExp.Pattern= "^$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9])?$"
case else
Response.Write("Invalid syntax used to call form validation function.")
Response.End
end select
Validate_Input = objRegExp.Test(Expression)
else
Response.Write("Invalid syntax used to call form validation function.")
Response.End
end if
End Function
' Get data from the form collection and assign to variables
dim str_Customer_Email
dim str_Customer_Phone
dim str_Customer_Name
dim str_Customer_Zip
str_Customer_Email= Request.Form("email")
str_Customer_Phone= Request.Form("phone")
str_Customer_Name= Request.Form("name")
str_Customer_Zip= Request.Form("zip")
if not (Validate_Input(str_Customer_Email,"EMAIL_ADDRESS")) then response.write ("error")
if not (Validate_Input(str_Customer_Phone,"US_PHONE")) then response.write ("error")
if not (Validate_Input(str_Customer_Name,"NAME")) then response.write ("error")
if not (Validate_Input(str_Customer_Zip,"ZIP")) then response.write ("error")
response.end
%>
Now, I'll obviously want to do more than write "error" to the screen with the validated input. What I *really* want ideas on is a more efficient way to validate the fields. In this small example doing them as one-offs isn't bad. On a form that has 20-30 fields it becomes cumbersome.
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Right, pretty simple eh!
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<font>
<font color=green>
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I believe regular expression are the way to go?
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Example:
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<a href="exit.asp?url=http://myorgwebsite.org/myorg"> Link 1</a>
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Ok - the first thing I did was break it up - because it looks a nightmare
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