MySQL VB6 and Regex

[amanda6192]

Hi,

I will try and explain my problem to the best of my ability. I have some code that access' 2 MySQL tables and retrives some values, one of these being a set of regular expressions, and the other being the stings that i wish to test the regular expression on. The problem occurs when i try and loop around these values, my first loop is to loop around the regular expressions, and the sencond loop is to loop around the strings to match against the regular expression.

Do Until rdoRsReg.EOF
    With rdoRsReg
    
        objRE.Pattern = !Regexpression
        objRE.Global = True
    
        Do Until rdoRS.EOF
            
            With rdoRS
            
                    Set objMatches = objRE.Execute(!Query_text)
                    If objMatches.count > 0 Then
                        For Each objMatch In objMatches
                          Text2.Text = Text2.Text + vbCrLf & !Query_ID & objMatch.Value '"Sentence end found at position " & objMatch.FirstIndex
                        Next
                        Else
                            Text2.Text = Text2.Text & "The expression was not found"
                        End If
                    
                rdoRS.MoveNext
            
            End With
        Loop
    
    rdoRsReg.MoveNext
    
    End With
Loop

When i step through the debugger is say i am using an invalid use of null on the following line :

Set objMatches = objRE.Execute(!Query_text)

To begin with the !Query_text is holding a correct value from the table, but when i step past it, it the turns to null and errors.

Any help would be great

I hope i have explained my problem clearly, if not please ask for more detail

[PilgrimPete]

So are you saying that !QueryText changes to NULL during the iteration (i.e. before the MoveNext) or as you loop through the records?
Could you try a check such as:

If Not IsNull(!Query_text) then
    'do the regex check here
End If

Have you tried assigning the value to a local variable?

Dim strTest as string
strTest = !Query_text
Set objMatches = objRE.Execute(strTest)