Cannot find the fitting regular expression for counting the right class of words...

[Quängelosaurus Rex]

Hello there!

My name’s Wolf and i’m working on my phd-thesis right now. It’s about communication in online-games, and i’m using notepad++ for counting words and wordgroups (i’m from germany, so please forgive me for my bad english).

Right know, i 'm trying to count a special type of posting. It has got the following structure within it:

sucht” (in english: “guild [x] is looking for”)

X = any number of any characters. I tried it with “Gilde [[:alnum:]]+ sucht”, which seems to work partially, BUT i think this expression only covers the primary key base. For my search, i need the primary key base as well as every character that differs from it, e.g. A, a, À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, A, a, à, á, â, ã, ä and å (it has to work for any other character as well).

Sadly, i have no idea how to put that into a regular expression. Could you please help me?

Thank you so much!

Kind greetings
Wolf

[Quängelosaurus Rex]

Oh, and there is an additional issue: guild names are often framed by special characters like *, -, /, , <, > etc. the [x]-Part should involve those as well…i hope someone has an idea. :)

[guy038]

Hello Quangelosaurus Rex,

Unlike you think about, the POSIX classes [[:alpha:]] and [[:alnum:]], also, match all the Unicode Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arab accentuated letters !

So, taking in account your specific characters, including the Space character, of your second post, we, finally, get the two regexes, below :

Gilde [[:alpha:]/<>* -]+ sucht matches the string Gilde, followed with a space, then any non-null range of Letter, Slash, Less-Than sign, Greater-Than sign, Asterisk, Space, or Hyphen-Minus sign, followed with a Space and the string sucht

Gilde [[:alnum:]/<>* -]+ sucht matches the string Gilde, followed with a space, then any non-null range of Number, Letter, Slash, Less-Than sign, Greater-Than sign, Asterisk, Space, or Hyphen-Minus sign, followed with a Space and the string sucht

Best Regards,

guy038

P.S. :

You’ll find good documentation, about the new Boost C++ Regex library, v1.55.0 ( similar to the PERL Regular Common Expressions, v1.48.0 ), used by Notepad++, since its 6.0 version, at the TWO addresses below :

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/perl_syntax.html

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/format/boost_format_syntax.html

• The FIRST link explains the syntax, of regular expressions, in the SEARCH part

• The SECOND link explains the syntax, of regular expressions, in the REPLACEMENT part

You may, either, look for valuable informations, on the sites, below :

http://www.regular-expressions.info

http://www.rexegg.com

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html

To end with, feel free to ask, the N++ Community, for infos on any tricky regex that you came across OR for building any tricky regex, for a particular purpose :-))

[Quängelosaurus Rex]

Sorry for the late reply. Thank you VERY much for the awesome help! You really saved me here! =) Thank you a thousand times! =)