Regular Expressions

Victor Fatal

I have text files like that:

true
{
true
0.890000 0.195000 2000.000000
}
true
{
false
0.000000
}
{
version 0
0.385000
}
{
version 1
diffuse= maps/Autumn.dds
specular = Forest.dds
}
false
0.003208
“”
1
“FogLinear” "-212.500000 3450.000000 0.000000 0.301961 0.380392 0.415686 "
false
{
version 1
}

I need find:
{
version 1
diffuse= maps/Autumn.dds
specular = Forest.dds
}
and
{
version 1
}

excluding:

{
version 0
0.385000
}

And delete it. How can this be done?

Terry R

So if I read correctly you are searching for only the “version 1” sequence ending with the relevant “}”. Within version 1 is it ONLY with autumn.dds or is any text allowed within version 1?

Terry

Scott Sumner

@Victor-Fatal

You have asked regular expression related questions here before…what regular expression replacement have you tried for your current problem? It’s always good to see what one is considering for a solution, even if it isn’t quite working.

Victor Fatal

@Terry-R said:

So if I read correctly you are searching for only the “version 1” sequence ending with the relevant “}”. Within version 1 is it ONLY with autumn.dds or is any text allowed within version 1?

Terry I need delete all this stuff:
{
version 1
diffuse= maps/Autumn.dds
specular = Forest.dds
}
From “{” to “}”, but exclude blocks which have “version 0” like this:
{
version 0
0.385000
}

Victor Fatal

@Scott-Sumner said:

@Victor-Fatal

You have asked regular expression related questions here before…what regular expression replacement have you tried for your current problem? It’s always good to see what one is considering for a solution, even if it isn’t quite working.

so far I have come to this search query request:
version 1.*?[}]
but I can not get the upper brace.

Terry R

Without further information all I can present is
Find what: (?s)(\{\Rversion 1.+?version 1\R\})
Replace with: leave this field empty

This will capture ALL “version 1” sequences from opening { to closing }. Hopefully you can see where your regex might have failed and this one works and learn from that.

Terry

Scott Sumner

@Terry-R said:

(?s)({\Rversion 1.+?version 1\R})

Hmmm…using the sample data provided, that seems to remove all this:

{
version 1
diffuse= maps/Autumn.dds
specular = Forest.dds
}
false
0.003208
“”
1
“FogLinear” "-212.500000 3450.000000 0.000000 0.301961 0.380392 0.415686 "
false
{
version 1
}

…which seems like maybe removing too much?

To follow what the OP said initially, I’d try:

Find what zone: {\Rversion 1[^}]+\}
Replace with zone: leave this empty
Wrap around checkbox: as you like it
Search mode: Regular expression
Action: Press Replace / Replace All button

Which leaves one with the following after replacement:

true
{
true
0.890000 0.195000 2000.000000
}
true
{
false
0.000000
}
{
version 0
0.385000
}

false
0.003208
“”
1
“FogLinear” "-212.500000 3450.000000 0.000000 0.301961 0.380392 0.415686 "
false

Here’s an explanation of how the find works (replacement is merely with nothing):

THE FIND EXPRESSION:

{\Rversion 1[^}]+\}

[Match the character “{” literally][1 ] {
[Match a line break (carriage return and line feed pair, sole line feed, sole carriage return, vertical tab, form feed)][2 ] \R
[Match the character string “version 1” literally (case sensitive)][1 ] version 1
[Match any character that is NOT a “}”][1 ] [^}]+
- [Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)][3 ] +
[Match the character “}” literally][4 ] \}

Created with RegexBuddy

[1 ]: http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html
[2 ]: http://www.regular-expressions.info/nonprint.html
[3 ]: http://www.regular-expressions.info/repeat.html
[4 ]: http://www.regular-expressions.info/characters.html#special

Terry R

@Scott-Sumner, you may be right. I had originally interpreted it the way I had, but reading again, I’m heading your direction now.

It all goes back to getting “good” and “clear” information. I was looking at them like html tags, so an opening and closing “version 1” pair.

The OP will have choices now and when they try each option they can make the decision for themselves…

Terry