From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-03-16T12:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex returning less number of groups - where is the error?

Hi,

2009/3/16 Kimie Nakahara <kikacilda@yahoo.com.br>:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to build a regex to count the number of modified files by
> commit. For example, for the following svn log output:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r727998 | bentmann | 2008-12-19 21:50:48 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 4
> lines
> Changed paths:
>   A
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/messages/messages_de.properties
>   M
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/messages/messages_en.properties
>
> [MNG-3451] [MNG-3790] German localization for maven-core
> Submitted by: Christian Schulte
>
> o Applied with minor modifications
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r727871 | brett | 2008-12-19 11:48:07 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
> Changed paths:
>   M /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x
>   M
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
>
> [MNG-1830] use ISO 8601 format (not combined for readability)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> It need to return the revision number and the number of modified files,
> so the result of match would be something like :
>
> Result 1:
>     1. r727871 | brett | 2008-12-19 11:48:07 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) |
> 2 lines
>     2. A
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/messages/messages_de.properties
>     3. M
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/messages/messages_en.properties"]
> Result 2:
>    1. r727871 | brett | 2008-12-19 11:48:07 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) |
> 2 lines
>     2. M /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x
>     3. M
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
>
> I tried many variations of the following regular expression:
>
> /(^r\d+.*?)(?:^Changed paths:\n)(^\s*[MDA]\s(?:\/[\w.-]+)+/m
>
> but either it returns incomplete results, as:
>
> Result 1
>
> 1. r727998 | bentmann | 2008-12-19 21:50:48 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 4
> lines
> 2. A
> /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/maven-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/maven/messages/messages_de.properties
>
> Result 2
>
> 1. r727871 | brett | 2008-12-19 11:48:07 +1100 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 2
> lines
> 2. M /maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x
>
> Would someone be able to help me on this? Thanks in advance!!
>
I guess you want this:
/(^r\d+.*?)(?:^Changed paths:\n)((?:^\s*[MDA]\s\/[\w.\/-]+\n)+)/m

Regards,

Park Heesob