From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T18:41:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Patterns for error messages

Alle Monday 03 March 2008, Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev ha scritto:
> OK, but this regexp works for the second case ONLY (unfortunately, I have
> only one "output pattern" setting, so, I am trying to invent the universal
> one).

It should work for all the first three cases (at least, it does in ruby, which 
I'm using to test it).

> 
> >Regarding the last case, I think (but I may be wrong) that the third and
> >last
> >one are a single message, split in two lines for some reason. You should
> >try
> >to understand why this happens and act consequently. If you post the full
> >error messages, maybe with a piece of code which generates them, I can try
> >to
> >help you more.
> 
> Yes, it is like call stack: first line has something like case1-case3, other
> lines has something like case4.
> 
> For ex:
> 
> D:/!work/home/!stuff/ruby-tricks/test.rb:1:in `require': ./tricks.rb:31:
> syntax error, unexpected ']', expecting $end (SyntaxError)
> p 1,2,3].inject(0){|sum, n| sum + n}
>         ^	from D:/!work/home/!stuff/ruby-tricks/test.rb:1
> 

This should take care of all the four patterns:

/^(?:.*:\d+:in\s+`require':\s+|\s+\^\s+from\s+)?(.*)(?=:\d+)/

Stefano