reg expressions

[PT Exorcist]

I have to find folders that have the following sintax:

[100% Complete]-[100% Damaged]-[7 Tracks@38MB]-[LastCheck 31-01-2004]

so..

[xxx Complete]-[xxx Damaged]-[xxx Tracks@xxMB]-[LastCheck xxx]

I dont know anything about reg expressions, could anyone help me out?

[pax]

Hi.

Try something like this:
[[][0-9].*?% Complete[]]-[[][0-9].*?% Damaged[]]-[[][0-9].*? Tracks@[0-9].*?MB[]]-[[]LastCheck [0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][]]

This might need some tweaking, because "100%" and "1 0 0 %" will both succed, so it's not foolproof, but it will match the string in your post.

BTW: you might wan't to look at www.regular-expressions.com.
They have a very good tutorial on RegEx.

Hope it helps.

[PT Exorcist]

Well much tks, ill try it and will read the tuturial too as i want to be able to do it next time for myself

[PT Exorcist]

could you change it for

[86,3% Complete]-[0 Damaged]-[7 Tracks@33MB]-[LastCheck 01-02-2004]

please? I'm reading the tuturial in the meantime..

thanks!

[PT Exorcist]

bump gump dump

[pax]

Hi.

I believe this ought to do it.

[[][0-9].*?% Complete[]]-[[][0-9].*? Damaged[]]-[[][0-9].*? Tracks@[0-9].*?MB[]]-[[]LastCheck [0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][]]

The only change is actually to % before the "Damaged" part.
Now it just checks that after the complete part, there should be a number. After that it accepts everything repeatedly until it see a space.

the ".*?" means that all characters are accepted and repeated until the it meets the character after the ?-mark.

Hope you can use it.