Re: analyze-string help?

A dash ('-') in the character set wildcard ("[...]") indicates a
character range (as you know).

You've just overlooked that using a '-' literally as a member in such
a set should be written first, after the opening bracket.

   regex="([-A-Za-z0-9 ,./]*) - ([ A-Za-z0-9/]*)"

Otherwise you include the range from space to comma, which just misses the
dash.

-W

On 10 June 2012 07:40, Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have the following value in the $title variable without the quotes
> "foo-119 Mode Module Batteries - Installation"
>
> I have a series of strings like this where I want to separate the content
after the last "space dash space" from everything the proceeds that point. So
I came up with the following:
>
> <xsl:analyze-string select="$title" regex="([A-Za-z0-9 -,./]*) - ([
A-Za-z0-9/]*)">
>      <xsl:matching-substring>
>            <techname><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/></techname>
>            <infoname><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/></infoname>
>     </xsl:matching-substring>
>     <xsl:non-matching-substring>
>            <xsl:comment>NO MATCH for techname and infoname "<xsl:value-of
select="$title"/>"</xsl:comment>
>     </xsl:non-matching-substring>
> </xsl:analyze-string>
>
> I'm getting this output:
>
>        <!--NO MATCH for techname and infoname "foo-119 Mode Module Batteries
- Installation"-->
> <techname>119 Mode Module Batteries</techname>
> <infoname>Installation</infoname>
>
> I was expecting all dashes to be captured except for the last one or at
least the first "space dash space", it looks like the pattern gets the "foo-"
and flags it as mismatched and then captures the other two strings. Can you
help me understand what is going on.
>
> thanks
> ..dan
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Danny Vint
>
> Panoramic Photography
> http://www.dvint.com
>
> voice: 619-938-3610