RegExp

DF deefriend at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 15 16:00:38 PDT 2008


Sergey Gromov Wrote:

> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:01:04 -0400,
> DF wrote:
> > /**
> >  * RegExp test.
> >  */
> > import std.regexp;
> > import std.stdio;
> > 
> > void main() {
> > 	string someString = "Hello world!";
> > 	auto regExp = new RegExp(r"[wW]orld");
> > 	auto result = regExp.search(someString);
> > 	//int k = regExp.test(someString);
> > 	if (result is null) {
> > 		writefln("Not found!");
> > 	} else {
> > 		writefln("Result:" ~ result[0]);
> > 	}
> > }
> > 
> > This code never writes the searched part, until we uncomment the line with test() method call, though there is a word matching the pattern. Why?
> 
> It shouldn't.  search() prepares the regexp for use in foreach loop.  The 
> correct function for you is find:
> 
> import std.regexp;
> import std.stdio;
> 
> void main() {
> 	string someString = "Hello world!";
> 	auto regExp = new RegExp(r"[wW]orld");
> 	auto result = regExp.find(someString);
> 	if (result == -1) {
> 		writefln("Not found!");
> 	} else {
> 		writefln("Result:" ~ regExp[0]);
> 	}
> }
Thanks.



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