>>>Lets divide the pattern in 6 groups:
>>>Group 1: [0-9]+;
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by ; and a space
>>>Group 2: [0-9]+
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by a space
>>>Group 3: [0-9]+
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by a space
>>>Group 4: SCHEMA -
>>>Exactly the text SCHEMA -
>>>Group 5: here's the problem...
>>>Anything unless exactly the text information-schema or anything that doesn't start with pg_
>>>Group 6: [a-zA-Z]+
>>>Any quantity of characters.
>>
>>
>>>Lets divide the pattern in 6 groups:
>>>Group 1: [0-9]+;
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by ; and a space
>>>Group 2: [0-9]+
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by a space
>>>Group 3: [0-9]+
>>>Any quantity of numbers followed by a space
>>>Group 4: SCHEMA -
>>>Exactly the text SCHEMA -
>>>Group 5: here's the problem...
>>>Anything unless exactly the text information-schema or anything that doesn't start with pg_
>>>Group 6: [a-zA-Z]+
>>>Any quantity of characters.
>>
>>For readability, I have
>>- used [ ] to represent the space char
>>- put the different groups within parentheses
>>- used p5 for group 5
>>
>>

>>	local regexObj
>>	regexObj = createobject('VBScript.RegExp')
>>	regexObj.Global = .f.
>>	regexObj.IgnoreCase = .f.
>>	regexObj.MultiLine = .f.
>>	
>>	local pattern, p5
>>	pattern = '^(\d+;[ ])(\d+[ ])(\d+[ ])(SCHEMA[ ]-[ ])(%%p5%%)([a-zA-Z]+)$'
>>	p5 = '(?!information-schema[ ])(?!pg_)[\w-]+[ ]'
>>	pattern = strtran(m.pattern, '%%p5%%', m.p5)
>>	regexObj.Pattern = m.pattern
>>	
>>	local samples
>>	text to samples noshow pretext 7
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - e9999 postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - pg_catalog postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - pg_temp postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - information-schema postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - information-test postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - information postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - schema postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - myinformation-schema postgres
>>		8; 2615 1490850 SCHEMA - information-schemas postgres
>>	endtext
>>	
>>	local aa[1], naa, i, s
>>	naa = alines(aa, m.samples)
>>	
>>	for i = 1 to m.naa
>>		s = m.aa[m.i]
>>		
>>		?m.i, m.regexObj.Test(m.s), m.s
>>	endfor
>>

Ha. I'd forgotten about the VBScript option - Regex is back in the picture ! :-}
>
>I'm going to be dealing with strings (about 150 words long, liberally sprinkled with brackets and commas). I need to scan this text looking for mainly words (but occasionally phrases) contained in a lookup table and, when a matching word/phrase is found, replace it with the replacement text in the lookup. We're estimating that the table will have ~200 entries. A word or phrase may appear multiple times in the text. Won't be starting for a few days - got other stuff to finish up - but I may get back to you on a new thread. Thx.


Yes, no problem. Post a few examples when the time comes

And I've posted this a couple of times, it's up to date except VbScript now supports positive and negative lookahead as well - but that can be found towards the end (.Net page 23)

http://www.atoutfox.org/modules/articles/pdf/0000000748.pdf