REReplace / Regex Help

I have to replace single quote marks in a html file with doubles without changing aprosphies. All are in class='' files but some are not closed at the end. Some contain additional information. I was looking for "class='" as my replace and then "'/>" as my ending by it doesnt catch those correctly with a stye also in the string.
I want to use regex to look for class='%' but dont know if there is a way to replace the wildcard content back and only replace the single quotes that surround it.
I.E. <class='page_general_content' /> = <class="page_general_content" /> or <class='image_body'> = <class="image_body" />
or my personal favorite <div class='media_wrapper' style='width:300px;'> = <div class="media_wrapper" style="width:300px;"> where i have to look for a wildcarded style too.
Any ideas on how to do this. Of course it came in this morning and needs to be done today so code examples would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

wmkolcz wrote:
I have to replace single quote marks in a html file with doubles without changing aprosphies.[...]
or my personal favorite <div class='media_wrapper' style='width:300px;'>
Hi wmkolcz,
Regex isn't necessary. Here is an example:
<cfsavecontent variable="html">
<div class='media_wrapper' style='width:300px;'>foobar's</div>
</cfsavecontent>
<cfset xml = xmlParse(html) />
<cfdump var="#right(xml, len(xml)-39)#" />
Thanks,
-Aaron

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[regex help]Find EXACT characters in a String.

Ok, i got this so far ...
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Testing2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[wati]");
        String text = "water";
        Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
        if (m.find()) {
            System.out.print("Found !");
}With that code i got a match, but i ONLY want to find a match if the String matches the EXACTS characters in the Pattern ...
in this case i got, 'w' 'a' 't' 'i', 'w' 'a' 't', are in water, but 'i' NOT, so i don't want to have a match !
i don't know how to acomplish this :(
hope you can help me, thanks in advance :D

Username7260 wrote:
Ok, i got this so far ...
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
public class Testing2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[wati]");
String text = "water";
Matcher m = p.matcher(text);
if (m.find()) {
System.out.print("Found !");
}With that code i got a match, but i ONLY want to find a match if the String matches the EXACTS characters in the Pattern ...
in this case i got, 'w' 'a' 't' 'i', 'w' 'a' 't', are in water, but 'i' NOT, so i don't want to have a match !
i don't know how to acomplish this :(AFAIK there's no syntax in regular expressions to accomplish this. Try turning your string into a character array, sorting it, and then do a simple comparison.

In need of Regex help

Hi,
I've never used Regex before, and since I currently need to use it for a command-line parser in my server application I thought that I should try to see if anyone feels kind enough to take a couple of minutes and help me out (The regex tutorial is way complicated to get down and study for this tiny purpose).
I need a regex that will be used with String.split to chop up an input string.
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If the string looks like: cast "magic missile" 3.turtle
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In short, it should never return any whitespace if it is not delimitered with ":s.
Does it make any sense?
Grateful for any help I can get.
Sincerely
/Viktor Klang

Try this:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
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    private static String INPUT          = "cast \"magic missile\" 3.turtle";
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          Object token = null;
          Integer value = null;
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          processString( INPUT );
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RegEx help requested.

Hello, All.
I am new to Java and I am not much familiar with Java regExp package as well. I am looking into it though. I have a specific question related to Reg Exp creation.
We are in need of parsing a string like "XXX > 6 && YYY> 10" [Meaning variable XXX is greater than 6 and variable YYY is greater than 10 ] please note that this string/condition is dynamic and we need to support the normal operators and AND and OR operator for clubbing the condition.
We are just thinking that whether regex will solve our problem? if so how it can be recommended used and what would be the sample of regex grammer?
Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
Best Regards,
Prasanna.

novice_questions wrote:
Thanks for your reply. It may not have brackets in side the expression.
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Operator can be [>,<]
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Thanks,
Prasanna.As already mentioned: you can't use regex for this. You either have to write your own parser or, if the expression stay as simple as you posted, use the existing script engine from Java 1.6.
Here's a small demo:
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Regex help

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> Hello i need some help with regex to do the following
>
> String to get:
>
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>
> String to search:
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>
> Using the following regex expression:
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OK - I have a CSV file where each cell value is surrounded by double-quotes. What's more, the values can have commas in them (which are not escaped in anyway). The values can also be empty. So if I have the line
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sabre150 - thanks, this is a great help. I've used groups before and, quite frankly, I'm not sure how because now they don't seem to be working how I thought they did:
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Hi,
try this :
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Regex help for SQL update statement

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Regex Help: Word not following by another word

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Yes, this is what I was looking for.
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Xml regex help - can't use xml parser

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I receive xmls from a legacy system and use JAXB to parse these xml's into java objects.
The xml looks roughly like this:
<root-Tag>
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The entry elements contain some entry relevant info inside nested tags.
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Heres what i've got so far:
A helpful function to print out matches for regex on an input string:
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1:TagName
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Regex help please...need to grab a part of a string...

Hi there,
I have a dynamic form with dynamic fields and dynamic data types.
What I want to do is check the data-type by grabbing it from the field name.
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The whole string is the field name, but I want to also extract the string between the square brackets. This will help me validate the field when it comes to submission. I will then compare it to a last of valid possibilities.
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Mnay thanks,
Mikey.

Mikey,
One question: Is the string 'formEmail[email]' the actual string (as opposed to being a variable that will get evaluated)?
There are a lot of ways to go about this sort of task with regular expressions. If 'formEmail[email]' is an example of the type of strings you are searching, a regular expression along the lines of the following might be useful:
<cfscript>
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     Second match: #results[2]#<br />
</cfoutput>
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I can't seem to create a regular expression that will find all of the scenarios that I need without including results I don't want. These are the rules I need:
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936517 wrote:
I suggest you use JUnit if you don't already use it to verify every possible input condition is tested and passes.Thank you for the suggestion. I don't have JUnit set up for this project. I have a small program that I created, based off of the one provided in the regex tutorial, that allows me to type in a regular expression, a string I want to evaluate, and the results it produces. The regex expression I tried and the examples I could think of all worked. I also have some test data to try, once I finish my little program. I won't be able to anticipate every possible typo the users can make, but this will be an improvement over what we have now.I suspect you are reading more into 936517's post than he meant; I certainly don't think he expected you to cover all possible inputs since, being infinite, that is impossible. I think he probably meant to say you should cover a good selection of 'good' data and a good selection of 'bad' data plus all edge conditions you can think of.
I agree with 936517 about using JUnit. It works well even for the sort of testing you are doing.

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Hi everyone
I m new to java.
currently I om working an a project that requires regex for parsing.
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please help me.
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I want to parse Oct 8 and Nov 27 (start and end of the period)
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Hi,
I have to check for non-numeric at a particular location of the usernames in my database.
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                                               'SAMEM1',
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