Thread: RegEx help
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Old 02-21-2005, 12:58 PM   #1
mier
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Question RegEx help

Greetings,
First off, thanks for the program, I like it much better than plucker desktop.

I've been trying to figure out how the regular expression syntax is handled. I figured it would be some java derivative since the program is written in java, but I can't seem to figure the syntax. I tried enclosing everything in "'s, but the filter strips those off, so I figure they're "understood". I tried various wildcards like:
.*(alone|showrate)* or just[*]++showrate\=1 (or \\=1 or just =1, followed by + or ++ or *)
but I can't seem to get it to work. Maybe I'm just malforming the syntax since I'm kind of new at regex, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something simple. An example would be wonderful if any could help.

I was also trying the wildcard side of things since all I really wanted was to filter out URL's with "showrate" in them. I finally figured out that http*showrate* worked but *showrate* by itself would not. Any ideas there?

Thanks for reading,
mier
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