Regex help needed

[circuit_breaker]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the variable
name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex expression would
operate as follows:

05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)

would become:
WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

Thanks in advance.

 

[Larry Lard]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the variable
name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex expression would
operate as follows:

05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)

would become:
WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

If I remember my COBOL right, the level number is always two digits,
and variable names aren't allowed spaces. This quickly gives us

\s*\d\d\s*(\S*)\s*.*

which reads:
some whitespace
a digit
a digit
some whitespace
any number of non-whitespace characters <------ remember this part of
the match
some whitespace
anything else

 

[Armin Zingler]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a Regex expression that will extract the
variable name from a COBOL layout. As an example, the Regex
expression would operate as follows:

05 WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2 PIC X(15)

would become:
WS-MANUF-NAME-LEVEL2

Thanks in advance.

I don't see the relation to the VB.Net language. RegEx are a part of the
Framework. Better place to ask: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework. You'll
benefit from all the none-VB-ers, too.


Armin

 

[Homer J Simpson]

I don't see the relation to the VB.Net language. RegEx are a part of the
Framework. Better place to ask: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework. You'll
benefit from all the none-VB-ers, too.

Or

^\([! ]*\) \([! ]*\) ?*

\2