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Reply to topic   Topic: Velocity Regex using JDK1.4.2
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snoopygee



Joined: 11 Jun 2010
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Fri 11 Jun '10 10:59    Post subject: Velocity Regex using JDK1.4.2 Reply with quote

Hi I am trying to split some text strings using a Velocity Template but seem to be running into an issue.

Given the following String:

Quote:
"Dave .P/did not g//o to the .G/market wh/en .he was supposed to"


I am using the following code in my template:

Code:
#macro( splitAndPrintOnCarriageReturn $value $max )
     #set ($strings = $value.split("\.[A-Z]/"))    
     #set ($start = true)
     #foreach ($s in $strings)      
      #if($start == false)
         <br>         
      #end   
      #set ($start = false )
      #splitAndPrintString( $s $max )              
     #end
#end


In this example I am trying to split the string on .P/ and .G/ However the string is not split at all, almost as if my regex is incorrectly formatted. I have read on some obscure site that perhaps because I am using this with a JRE1.4.2 application, the template cannot recognise regular expressions but I don't know whether this is true.

Any help here would be most appreciated.
Thanks
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glsmith
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Joined: 16 Oct 2007
Posts: 2268
Location: Sun Diego, USA

PostPosted: Fri 11 Jun '10 14:27    Post subject: Reply with quote

First, I have no idea what velocity is, not sure I even want to.

If you take your code and put a P where the [A-Z] is, does it make the first split in the sample and give you $strings[0] and $strings[1]?

If that works then obviously it does not accept [A-Z].
If not, does the trailing forward slash need to be escaped (a perl thing but never know)?
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snoopygee



Joined: 11 Jun 2010
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Fri 11 Jun '10 16:22    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Quote:
If you take your code and put a P where the [A-Z] is, does it make the first split in the sample and give you $strings[0] and $strings[1]?


No regular expression seems to work at all, that's why I was wondering whether it was related to the Java version, or indeed whether regex is handled in any version.

Thanks
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