[Tutor] help with regexps/filename parsing
Scott W
wegster at mindcore.net
Mon Jan 31 12:16:36 CET 2005
Hey all.
I've got an issue that's been driving me a bit nuts. I'm sure it _can_
be done with a regexp, although I'm missing a piece needed to tie it
together to work for all cases.
I need to parse out a list of RPMs in this case, but it seems the RPM
naming convention has changed, as there are files I'll need to parse
that are NOT in the normal name-version-release.arch.rpm format.
I need to be able to grab the 'basename' for each file, as well as the
version and arch, although these can be done seperately. The problem
can be shown by the following list of filenames:
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-78.EL.i386.rpm (Note the EL
embedded in name)
xfig-3.2.3d-12.i386.rpm (standard naming)
rhel-ig-ppc-multi-zh_tw-3-4.noarch.rpm
perl-DateManip-5.42a-0.rhel3.noarch.rpm
openoffice.org-style-gnome-1.1.0-16.9.EL.i386.rpm
Those should represent the set of variations now possible. I can handle
most, but not all of the cases...any suggestions that would cover all of
the above allowing the extraction of:
basename- in this case:
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts,
xfig,
rhel-ig-ppc-multi-zh_tw,
perl-DateManip,
openoffice.org-style-gnome
version:
4.3.0-78.EL (yes, including the .EL unfortunately, although I'd be OK
without it and munging it on end if needed)
3.2.3d-12
3-4
5.42a-0
1.1.0-16.9.EL
arches:
i386,
i386,
noarch,
noarch,
i386
respectively.
Any help greatly appreciated, as I've been beating myself up on this one
for a bit.
Thanks,
Scott
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