[Cialug] multiline regular expression

[Dave Weis]

Kendall Bailey wrote:
> I use kodos to design complex regular expressions.  It's a Python
> (PyQt) program.  You can find it on sourceforge.  It has checkboxes
> for things like multi-line, dotall and verbose and constructs code
> samples.  You plug in an example of the string you are trying to match
> and then as you write the regexp you get to see the match attributes
> immediately.

I might give that a try. Looks helpful

> On 6/28/07, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>>
>> I need to parse a text file that contains two lines per record in this
>> format:
>>      324     NOR  05/17/07 10:21A    0000000   999-999-9999 COLUMBUS OH
>>       1      .9        .0700        .0000        .0000
>>
>>       Y    CURRENT         00:00:54  0000000   999-999-9999 DES MOINES IA
>>
>> There are other lines in the file that are similar like
>>     LATA   USGE-GP  DATE   TIME     DEST-CITY
>> --------DESTINATION--------   #RECS  MINUTES  AMOUNT-1     AMOUNT-2
>> VOL-AMT
>>      ANI   STATUS          ACT-DUR  ORIG-CITY
>> --------ORIGINATION--------           MISC-1               MISC-2
>> VOL-COD
>> that is the header.
>>
>> I'll be using the java regexp but if anyone can direct me on any regexp
>> setup I'll convert it myself.
>>
>> Thanks
>> dave
>>
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