Action: Regular Expression [#1658092]

Search for matches using a regular expression.

Good for text cleanup during data import, and probably countless other cases.

Note: we may want to change the match result from a single value to a list of strings.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#9	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	9.62 KB	geek-merlin
#7	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	4.81 KB	geek-merlin
#6	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	4.77 KB	geek-merlin
#5	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	4.65 KB	geek-merlin
#3	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	4.62 KB	geek-merlin
#1	action-regex-1.patch	1.96 KB	mitchell
#1	action-regex-1b.patch	2.24 KB	mitchell
#1	action-regex-interdiff.txt	690 bytes	mitchell

Comments

Comment #1

mitchell commented 24 June 2012 at 18:58

Status:

Active

» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	action-regex-interdiff.txt	690 bytes
new	action-regex-1b.patch	2.24 KB
new	action-regex-1.patch	1.96 KB

Attached are two versions of the same patch. The first is by mlncn, and the second has a few changes to labels and help text by me. I include an interdiff for easy comparison.

Comment #2

27 March 2013 at 13:34

Status:

Needs review

» Needs work

The last submitted patch, action-regex-1b.patch, failed testing.

Status	File	Size
new	0001-Issue-1658092-Added-Action-Regular-Expression.patch	4.62 KB

Took patch 1b and
* fixed syntax error
* result is now a list of strings
* if a subpattern is named "result", this is taken, otherwise the whole match
* regexp input now includes delimiters and possibly modifiers (hardcoding delimiters is a PITA for some regexps and modifiers are useful)
* enriched descriptions and links
* added tests

patch flying in, food for testbot!