Processing Semicolon

[tiago]

Why I can't use regexreplace or trim on semicolon?

[highend]

Examples where it doesn't work?

[tiago]

Sure.

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   $tk = "(test);";
// step;
   $tk = regexreplace("$tk", "chr(59)", ""); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim("$tk", eval("chr(59)")); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim("$tk", "*;(+)."); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   text "no semicolon here?<crlf>$tk";

[highend]

No clue what you're talking about...

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    $tk = "(test);";
    $tk = regexreplace($tk, ";");
    text $tk;

    $tk = "(test);";
    $tk = trim($tk, ";");
    text $tk;

"*;(+)."

What's that, a regex pattern?

[tiago]

So it seems I don't understand quoting too.

Removing quotes on "$tk" makes it work.

"*;(+)."

What's that, a regex pattern?

No. Those characters, perhaps more, if present on input make regexmatches throw error messages for each time they happen on a loop. Anyway I'm considering asking a silent mode for cases like these.

Thanks very much for your assistance, highend! Soon I'll post the entire script on a new post per your instructions so you can check what improvements can be made, as you suggested on the thanks thread ("I bet that can be done faster xD").

[tiago]

I really cant take it.

Now it's not working again:

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   $tk = "(te);";
 step;
   $tk = regexreplace($tk, "chr(59)", ""); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim($tk, eval("chr(59)")); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim("$tk", "*;(+)."); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   text "no semicolon here?<crlf>$tk";

Got it.
If copied from forum, it works.
Will attach it in a few secs...

[highend]

Ehm, removing of quotes around $tk has what to do with this case?
This is just unnecessary quoting, that's all.

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$tk = regexreplace("$tk", "chr(59)", "");

This is crap. You're quoting a scripting command which makes it a string, not a command.

make regexmatches throw error messages

These are special characters. They need to be escaped in a regex pattern. A semicolon isn't one of them^^

Soon I'll post the entire script on a new post per your instructions so you can check what improvements can be made, as you suggested on the thanks thread

Mine takes 1313 ms to produce the alphabetical sorted list "Abwurf.wav = 1<crlf>..."

[tiago]

It's a trick problem. If you bother...

Go here:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/20 ... agem.shtml

Put the text in print preview, copy the whole page;

Paste the content on a notepad window;

Locate "(SP);" on it, copy it and use it as source for "$tk" variable at the posted script (any version).

-regexreplace and trim will not process it!

[tiago]

Ehm, removing of quotes around $tk has what to do with this case?
This is just unnecessary quoting, that's all.

I agree.

Mine takes 1313 ms to produce the alphabetical sorted list "Abwurf.wav = 1<crlf>..."

How do you do the measurement???

[highend]

Show screenshots of:
Notepad with the selected text that you want to copy
Your text editor after inserting the text

[highend]

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    $start = now("msecs");

... code to execute ...

    $duration = now("msecs") - $start;
    text $duration . " msecs";

[tiago]

xy ss1.png (20.18 KiB) Viewed 3478 times

Your text editor after inserting the text

What?
I insert it right into the Run Script dialogue. Once done coding, then I paste both code and processed text into plain text files.

[bdeshi]

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   $tk = "(te);";
 step;
   $tk = regexreplace($tk, "chr(59)", ""); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim($tk, eval("chr(59)")); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim("$tk", "*;(+)."); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   text "no semicolon here?<crlf>$tk";

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$tk = regexreplace($tk, "chr(59)", "");

What you're trying to do here is asking the script to match the string "chr(59)" in $tk. This could've worked if $tk = "I have chr(59) within me"; . You should not quote function calls when you want to use their return. Use them like this: $v = "prefix" . function() . "suffix";
Anyway, chr() is not needed at all. You can just do

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   $tk = regexreplace($tk, ";", "");
   $tk = trim($tk, ";");

This is the FIRST thing you should've tried, before all that eval(), chr() business.

[tiago]

Hello, SammaySarkar!
Thanks for popping up.

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   $tk = "(te);";
 step;
   $tk = regexreplace($tk, "chr(59)", ""); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim($tk, eval("chr(59)")); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   $tk = trim("$tk", "*;(+)."); //otherwise regexmatches will bitch...
   text "no semicolon here?<crlf>$tk";

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$tk = regexreplace($tk, "chr(59)", "");

What you're trying to do here is asking the script to match the string "chr(59)" in $tk. This could've worked if $tk = "I have chr(59) within me"; . You should not quote function calls when you want to use their return. Use them like this: $v = "prefix" . function() . "suffix";
Anyway, chr() is not needed at all. You can just do

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   $tk = regexreplace($tk, ";", "");
   $tk = trim($tk, ";");

This is the FIRST thing you should've tried, before all that eval(), chr() business.

Not so fast, pal, not so fast!
I did started with simple'r versions. As they proved to be useless on the input described above I started experimenting.
Try to use the attached zipped .txt as source, thus avoiding the complicated steps I described, and perhaps you can see for yourself.

[bdeshi]

You said you want to extract the (SP); part and trim it, but since this is already a known static string, there doesn't seem much need for scripting.
How exactly do you want to process that attached text?