A dash ('-') in the character set wildcard ("[...]") indicates a
character range (as you know).
You've just overlooked that using a '-' literally as a member in such
a set should be written first, after the opening bracket.
regex="([-A-Za-z0-9 ,./]*) - ([ A-Za-z0-9/]*)"
Otherwise you include the range from space to comma, which just misses the dash.
-W
On 10 June 2012 07:40, Dan Vint <dvint(_at_)dvint(_dot_)com> wrote:
I have the following value in the $title variable without the quotes
"foo-119 Mode Module Batteries - Installation"
I have a series of strings like this where I want to separate the content
after the last "space dash space" from everything the proceeds that point. So
I came up with the following:
<xsl:analyze-string select="$title" regex="([A-Za-z0-9 -,./]*) - ([
A-Za-z0-9/]*)">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<techname><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/></techname>
<infoname><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/></infoname>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:comment>NO MATCH for techname and infoname "<xsl:value-of
select="$title"/>"</xsl:comment>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
I'm getting this output:
<!--NO MATCH for techname and infoname "foo-119 Mode Module Batteries
- Installation"-->
<techname>119 Mode Module Batteries</techname>
<infoname>Installation</infoname>
I was expecting all dashes to be captured except for the last one or at least
the first "space dash space", it looks like the pattern gets the "foo-" and
flags it as mismatched and then captures the other two strings. Can you help
me understand what is going on.
thanks
..dan
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