matchText question

[Michael Doub]

Yuck... I just tried this on 7.0.2 (rc2)

Original:  11184
Latest:     11321

On 2/25/15 7:23 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
> if any one is interested.   I did this hoping that it would speed up 
> my parsing.  As it turns out my original version was faster.   The 
> original had 8 separate matchTexts with straight forward expresions, 
> where the last version had 2 matchtexts with expressions lots of 
> alternatives.
>
> Original:  1620 millisec
> Latest: 1641 millisec
>
> For the curious: 
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/20j4iy4oomrr12c/Parser.livecode?dl=0
>
> Thanks again for everyone's help.
>
> -= Mike
>
>
>
> On 2/25/15 6:52 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>            "^\s*(/\*).*" \ works, if you're trying to match opening /*
>> comments.
>> If you're trying to match lines that start with * thats a different 
>> story.
>> \* matches asterisk.  /\* matches /*
>> If you want to grab the whole comment line move the .* inside the 
>> parens.
>> Not sure what the "include" line you're trying to match should look like
>> either, something funky up there, but without seeing what you need to
>> match, its hard to figure out.
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, correct me if i'm wrong, but \w+ is a geedy word grab right?  
>>> Which
>>> should grab to the end if the line.. Seems like the .*+ wouldn't 
>>> even be
>>> necessary... Yep, just checked. Its not. The only part I can't get 
>>> to work
>>> is the last line for /*.  Not sure what it is i'm not seeing.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, it was to me too. Though, I did end up breaking it down into 
>>>> singles
>>>> and they all behaved the same, which made it easier to take a WAG.  
>>>> Less
>>>> wild than it would have otherwise been. Find the thing that's the 
>>>> same for
>>>> each part, and decide if its broke.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:50 PM, stephen barncard <
>>>> stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Try this instead..
>>>>>>      put "(?i)^\s*(\-\-\s+begin)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(on)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(function)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(command)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(private\s+function)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(private\s+command)\s+(\w+).*+|" & \
>>>>>>           "^\s*(\/\*\s+include).*+|" &  \
>>>>>>            "^\s*(\*\/).*+" \
>>>>>>           into expr
>>>>>>
>>>>> breaking down and displaying complex REGEX this way is very helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>> *--*
>>>>> *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*
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