matchText question

[Mike Bonner]

Wow, thats awful.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Michael Doub <mikedoub at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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