The $ symbol in a string

[SwissR]

Hi Guys,

Im trying to return the value of a substring stored between two other strings. lets say String Bbeg (beginning) and String end (end) the problem is my pattern search wont allow for the String beg value ("<$") and its really beginning to annoy me. Is there an easy way around this?

regards S

[Norm]

pattern search wont allow

If there are errors, please copy and paste them here with the line(s) of code causing the error.

[JosAH]

Hi Guys,

Im trying to return the value of a substring stored between two other strings. lets say String Bbeg (beginning) and String end (end) the problem is my pattern search wont allow for the String beg value ("<$") and its really beginning to annoy me. Is there an easy way around this?

regards S

You're talking about regular expression, right? The $ character is a meta character in the regular expression syntax: it means 'match the end of a line'; the < character does something special too but I forgot what exactly.

If you want to use those characters as ordinary characters you have to escape them both with a backslash: \<\$; but there's a little pitfall: if you want to pass that String in your Java source you have to get passed the Java compiler javac; it also uses backslashes for escape purposes but not regular expression purposes. You can escape the special meaning of a backslash with another backslash, so your regular expression ends up as: "\\<\\$" as a String literal.

kind regards,

Jos

[SwissR]

Hi guys thanks for the reply.

I actually get no errors is the compiler. Even my error trapping comes through it simply does not capture any data to write to the file.

When i tried Josahs example that returned alot of what I am trying to capture but it also returned alot of things i didn't want.

The trouble is im trying to return a list of Idoc variables which are all going to be something like <$value$> so how do I go about doing that if im skipping the $ symbol lol.

[JosAH]

The trouble is im trying to return a list of Idoc variables which are all going to be something like <$value$> so how do I go about doing that if im skipping the $ symbol lol.

If you want to include those dollar signs and all in your result read about 'capturing groups' in the Pattern class API (it's all about regular expressions).

kind regards,

Jos

[SwissR]

Do you by any chance have a decent link that could point me in the right direction, by googling im finding a few relating to integers but nothing mentioning symbols.

regards S

[JosAH]

Do you by any chance have a decent link that could point me in the right direction, by googling im finding a few relating to integers but nothing mentioning symbols.

regards S

You are not trying to tell me that you're attempting to program in Java without at least a permanent bookmark to the API documentation, are you?
here it is.

kind regards,

Jos

[SwissR]

Hi Guys,

I have a link to the sun site, by typing in what you want and generally getting what you want are two different things. I just figured that by you knowing it would be better to ask for a direct and correct link. Rather than something potentially misleading thats all.

Also i've used the search criteria as "<\\$" "\\$>"
But thats also not good enough, the file write response was massive and not even all ido. Some were just parts of loops or parameters etc.

I mean i think i can shorten the results by saying if the value exists in the array already then ignore it. Otherwise store it and continue reading the line.

But if its not just capturing what I want, its also capturing the other bits. Thats not really going to make much of a dent.

Basically at the moment I have one program (to capture instances of include occurances within a component)

And Now in the second program i am trying to do the same for idoc variables. The issue is, the variables can appear several times where as includes only appear once.
So i need to somehow confine my results showing the idoc variables to make it easier to read.

Once both programs work I will integrate them together, however for testing purposes I have kept them seperate for now.

Attached is a copy of some of the output to the file to show what I mean.

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*/

[Norm]

I suggest that you write a small program to read from a String using a StringReader or extract from a String[] array and scan for the data you want. The whole problem would be in a single file that you could post here for help.

[SwissR]

Just a thought, could I not create an If statement along the lines of something like.

If the arrayList already contains the values from this instance of resourceline and the value contains a symbol then call main method and continue to read document.

Otherwise add the instance to the arrayList and trim. This should remove alot of values. But how would I go about asking if my resourceline variable contains any symbol character, is there a regex way i can do this?

[b]If arrayList already contains resourceline && If resourceline contains (any symbol)[/b]
{
  main();
}  
else
{
  resourceline=resourceline.trim;
  arrayList.add resourceline;
}