Matching with a regex

Question

I have a string like:

{
    { SomeTextNoQuotes, "Some Text's", "Some Text" },
    { SomeTextNoQuotes, "Some Text's", "Some Text" },
    { SomeTextNoQuotes, "Some Text's", "Some Text" },
    { SomeTextNoQuotes, "Some Text's", "Some Text" },
    { SomeTextNoQuotes, "Some Text's", "Some Text" },
}

How can I match the last , "Some Text" of each row, just before the }? By the way, this is in Sublime Text that I'm trying to do it. The values are not consistent like I have them here, and I have a few hundred lines to replace on.

I tried , ".*" but that matches , "Some Text's, "Some Text".

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '13 at 00:52

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I don't use Sublime Text, but if it supports lookaheads, , ".[^"]*"(?= }) should do the trick.

answered Oct 16 '13 at 00:52

Amadan

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@今草顿웃: No, I can't, since OP explicitly wants it included in the match. – Amadan Oct 16 '13 at 01:43
This didn't quite work, however escaping the } did the trick. `, ".[^"]*"(?= \})`.. Thanks – user1960364 Oct 16 '13 at 02:19

hwnd · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-16T01:49:05.123

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A few ways you could go about this.

Option #1 we match the first set and then capture the second including the comma in group \1 or $1

"[^"]*"(, "[^"]*")

See live demo

Option #2 we use a look ahead to find that matched set.

, "[^"]*"(?= \})

See live demo

Option #3 we can match the whole string and our match is included in capture group \1 or $1

\{[\S\s]*?(,\s+"[^"]*")\s+\}

See live demo

edited Oct 16 '13 at 01:49

answered Oct 16 '13 at 01:35

hwnd

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#2 worked perfect, not sure how to use groups in sublimes replace. But a big +1 for those live demos and that site, I've never seen it before but it looks like a great way to finally learn regexs! – user1960364 Oct 16 '13 at 02:25
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See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11819886/regular-expression-search-replace-in-sublime-text-2 for future reference on capture groups with replacing. – hwnd Oct 16 '13 at 02:31

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 16 '13 at 00:55

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The following should work (using lookahead):

("Some Text")(?= \}\,)

The captured text will be found in the first matched group

Link to Fiddle

answered Oct 16 '13 at 00:55

Nir Alfasi

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This didn't work seeing as I stated, `The values are not consistent like I have them here`. Thanks anyway. :) – user1960364 Oct 16 '13 at 02:20

Matching with a regex

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