[Freeswitch-users] Need help on regex

Rupa Schomaker rupa at rupa.com
Mon Oct 25 07:29:26 PDT 2010


I've gotta ask.  What is the reason / business process you are doing that
requires a complex regex/match like this?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM, mazilo <Nabble at slickdeals.endjunk.com>wrote:

>
> Steve: Thank you and that does the trick. I try to modify the above regex
> filters so that it will become more user friendly using this
> expression="^(?|\d{3}(0\d{4})\d+|^(\d{3}[1-9]\d{6}))$". This way, the 1st
> regex filter (in bold) will process when the 4th digit is zero and only
> will
> capture starting from the 4th to 8th digits (a total of 5 digits) and will
> ignore the rest digits. In other words, if a user dials 12301234 or
> 1230123456 or 123012345 or 1230123456789, the regex filter will only return
> 01234. This works to a point, except if the entered number has an exact
> area
> code + 0 + 4 digits. For instance,
>
> 10-digits input number     output number   Comments
> ---------------------      -------------   ----------
>    4120123456              01234          Does work
>    41201234                               Doesn't work
>    412012346               01234          Does work
>    0121234567              0121234567     Does work
>    1310156434              01564          Does work
>    131015643               01564          Does work
>    13101564                               Doesn't work
>    8231234567              8231234567     Does work
>    823123456               823123456      Does work
>    0126543210              0126543210     Does work
>
> I can easily fix the above problem by introducing an additional regex
> filter
> into the above expression, i.e.
> expression="^(?|\d{3}(0\d{4})|\d{3}(0\d{4})\d+|^(\d{3}[1-9]\d{6}))$".
> However, if there is a better way to achieve this with less regex filter,
> it
> sure will be a plus.
>
> Mose: Thank you too even though the ":" doesn't seem to work. However, this
> bring an interesting thing for me to read the wiki
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Regular_Expression ReGex  so that I will
> understand further.
>
> -----
> don't and stop are the ONLY two 4-letter words considered offensive to men,
> but not when used together.
>


-- 
-Rupa
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