From: Wayne Brissette <wbrisett@...>
Date: 2013-01-04T09:16:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Suggestions on parsing


On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Matma Rex wrote:

> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:13:14 +0100, Wayne Brissette <wbrisett@att.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Normally I would use read in the file, assign it to a variable and then use someVariable.split(" insFld(foldersTree,")
>> However, in this case I want everything from the beginning of that line too. Any ideas? Maybe a different way to parse this data?
> 
> For a very simple ugly solution, you could use a regex with lookahead.
> 
> someVariable.split(/(?= insFld\(foldersTree,)/)
> 
> This would essentially split before every occurence (as the match itself would be zero-width; the contents of lookahead expression are not matched, only its "presence").
> 
> See http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html for more :)
> 

Close… What this gets me is: 

 insFld(foldersTree, gFld("ntimc0 @0x0.0x0.0x0", "ntimc0_doc.html#addrmap_ntimc0"))
addrmap_ntimc0_ntimc_core = insFld(addrmap_ntimc0, gFld("ntimc_core @0x0.0x0.0x0", "ntimc0_doc.html#addrmap_ntimc0_ntimc_core"))
  reg_ntimc0_ntimc_core_CFG = insDoc(addrmap_ntimc0_ntimc_core, gLnk("R", "CFG @0x0.0x0.0x0", "ntimc0_doc.html#reg_ntimc0_ntimc_core_CFG"))
…
  reg_ntimc0_cfg_node_node_scratch = insDoc(addrmap_ntimc0_cfg_node, gLnk("R", "node_scratch @0x0.0xff.0x20", "ntimc0_doc.html#reg_ntimc0_cfg_node_node_scratch"))
 addrmap_ntimc1 =

What I also need the start of the line (in this case addrmap_ntimc0 =  & the addrmap_ntimc1 would belong to the next capture array item.)

I struggled with this for a while and couldn't come up with a great solution. I'm hoping somebody here would have an easy fix for me. ;) I'll sleep on this and see what I can come up with tomorrow AM. 

Thanks Matma! 

Wayne