trigger and regex help

[tarrant]

I have this line, 83949204LLL.
How do i capture the first 5 numbers into 1 variable, the next 3 numbers into another variable and the next 3 letters into yet another variable. All the numbers and letters can change.

Also, is there a way for a trigger to capture say, the next 100 characters. Or next 20 characters. Instead of next 2 or 3 lines.

[tsuujin]

(\d{,5})(\d{,3})(\w{,3})

next x characters:
(.{,x})
change x to a number you wish.
(.{,100})

[tarrant]

What if its all in the same line?
As in, using the above example.
83949204LLL204charactersworthoftextornumbers
I'll capture 83949, 204, LLL then i wanna capture 204charactersworthoftextornumbers.
It'll all be in 1 line like the above.
So it could be 73848398HHH398charactersworthoftextornumbers, and i'll wanna capture all the 398 characters following the HHH.

[tsuujin]

Why don't you give me an actual example of what you're trying to do, rather than abstracts?

[tarrant]

Hmm,

#K%75560007BAE0.00
#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

In the second line, it's not a typo, sometimes they appear together that way in 1 line.

Thanks for your time and help.

[tsuujin]

Hmm,

#K%75560007BAE0.00
#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

In the second line, it's not a typo, sometimes they appear together that way in 1 line.

Thanks for your time and help.

All right. What is that? What information are you trying to pull out of it, and why? If I know that, I can come up with the regex.

How are you going to use the information you get?

[tarrant]

It is Portal MIP. You can read about it here

#K%75560007BAE0.00
#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

Basically, 75560 is just a random number, 007 is the number of characters that will be sent after the 007, BAE is the kind/type of information sent and 0.00, in this case, is the info sent.

I want to capture the info and echo it to different windows/miniconsoles based on the 3 letters preceding the info.

[tsuujin]

It is Portal MIP. You can read about it here

#K%75560007BAE0.00
#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

Basically, 75560 is just a random number, 007 is the number of characters that will be sent after the 007, BAE is the kind/type of information sent and 0.00, in this case, is the info sent.

I want to capture the info and echo it to different windows/miniconsoles based on the 3 letters preceding the info.

Regex:

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(.{,3})(\d{,5})(\d{0,3})(\w{,3})(.+)

Examples:

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#K%75560007BAE0.00
matches[1] = #K%75560007BAEBAE0.00
matches[2] = #K%
matches[3] = 75560
matches[4] = 007
matches[6] = BAE
matches[7] = 0.00

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#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days
matches[1] = #K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days
matches[2] = #K%
matches[3] = 75560
matches[4] = 008
matches[6] = AAC
matches[7] = 23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

I -think- that's what you're asking for.

[tarrant]

Hmm, what you gave didn't seem to work, so I modified it a little to

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#K%\d{5}(\d{3})(\w{3})

However, there is a problem with the second line where the 2 occurences are appearing at the same time,

#K%75560008AAC23:05#K%75560011AAF1.7 days

I need to capture #K%75560008AAC23:05 and #K%75560011AAF1.7 days separately. I thought the match all option would fix it, but it doesn't seem to work when the code is

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#K%\d{5}(\d{3})(\w{3})(.*)

cuz the .* just matches everything. If i remove the (.*) from the trigger, it will match all occurences within the same line properly.

Hmm, is it understandable? Not really sure how to make this clearer.

[Heiko]

Link to a good PCRE tutorial: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

Here's a link to the complete pcre manual: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt