JSL Regex - matching anything except word

michaeltsang

Hi there,

I am having trouble forming a regex expression (in JMP 9) that will match any word except some words that are specified.

So for instance,

Say, I dont want to match "hello" or "goodbye", but everything else.

A search online suggests

      <SPAN class="pun" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">^((?!</SPAN><SPAN class="pln" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">hello</SPAN><SPAN class="pun" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">|</SPAN><SPAN class="pln" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">goodbye</SPAN><SPAN class="pun" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">).)*</SPAN><SPAN class="pln" style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">$s </SPAN>

but JSL doesn't seem to support this type of regular expression.

I don't want to use any outside functions to help in this process, I just want to use a regular expression to accomplish this task because it will be used within another regular expression that is more complex. Could anybody help me with this problem?

Thanks!

Michael

Jeff_Perkinson

I don't do Regex but, depending on exactly what you want, the JSL functions Contains() and Substitute() can get you there.

str1="You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.";

str2 = "I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello, hello, hello.";

show((contains(str1, "Hello")) | contains(str1, "Goodbye"));

str3=substitute(substitute(str2, "hello", ""), "goodbye", "");

print(str3);

/*:

Contains(str1, "hello") | Contains(str1, "goodbye") = 1;

"I don't know why you say , I say , , ."