Trying to Use EasyPatterns...Please Help...

[rjw524]

I have been trying for the last 7 hours to figure out why this EasyPattern isn't working in my code, and I have no idea.

SAMPLE PATTERN:

<h3 title="John Doe, SEX, AGE" class="name"><a class="title" href="/private/record/50920067,-RUO,CAP?searchController=searchV2&searchId=1212163343&pos=14&total=684&searchCacheKey=293aa850-67bc-43f7-baff-26abc91e1f81%2C1Fdl">John Doe, SEX, AGE, </a><div class="badges"><abbr title="John Doe, SEX, AGE is a 1st level resident" class="degree-icon ">2^nd</abbr></div></h3>

REGEX RETURNED USING EASYPATTERNS:

<a class="title" href="/private/record[ longest 1 to 400 digits or letters or <!"#$%&'()*+,-./\:;=?@[]^_`{}~|> ]>[ capture( longest 1 to 50 letters or whitespace or <!"#$%&'()*+,-./\:;=?@[]^_`{}~|> ) ]</a>

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Let>URL=https://www.example.com/count=25

IEGetTags>%URL%,div,H,arrTag

//NOTE: I used the debugger here, and the "arrTag" array showed 639 results. I exploded the array and the tags were indeed pulled correctly


//CODE FOR EASYPATTERN REGEX:

Let>tmp0=<a class="title" href="/private/record[ longest 1 to 400 digits or letters or <!"#$%&'()*+,-./\:;=?@[]^_`{}~|> ]>[ capture( longest 1 to 50 letters or whitespace or <!"#$%&'()*+,-./\:;=?@[]^_`{}~|> ) ]</a>

RegEx>tmp0,arrTag,1,Matches,NumMatches,0,,

MDL>%NumMatches%

NumMatches returns 0 results, when done in EasyPatterns it returned 25 records (which is the correct number)

This is due for a very important project for my job on Monday, and I have no idea why it's not taking this pattern.

Can someone please help? I'm in need of a major save here.

rjw524

[Marcus Tettmar]

Maybe we need to use standard RegEx here. But what is it you want to return? If you can give an example of what you want returned we can work out what RegEx you need.

[rjw524]

I'm trying to return:

"John Doe, SEX, AGE"

These are variables. So, it could be "Cate Smith, Female, 31", etc.

[Marcus Tettmar]

So all you need is what appears in the title tag? :

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<h3 title="John Doe, SEX, AGE" class="name">

So all you need is:

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RegEx>(?<=title=").*?(?="),text,0,matches,nm,0

E.g.

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Let>text=<h3 title="John Doe, SEX, AGE" class="name"><a class="title" href="/private/record/50920067,-RUO,CAP?searchController=searchV2&searchId=1212163343&pos=14&total=684&searchCacheKey=293aa850-67bc-43f7-baff-26abc91e1f81%2C1Fdl">John Doe, SEX, AGE, </a><div class="badges"><abbr title="John Doe, SEX, AGE is a 1st level resident" class="degree-icon ">2<sup>nd</sup></abbr></div></h3>

RegEx>(?<=title=").*?(?="),text,0,matches,nm,0
MessageModal>matches_1

[rjw524]

Hi Marcus,

Thanks so much for the assist on this here! I used it the same day you posted it, but I was so swamped that I forgot to come back here to say thanks.

Major help!

rjw