Parsing airline reservation using JS regular expressions
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I'm searching a set text for multiple values, which will later be stored in a database.
I am using RegExp and worked with the official documentation and help to get the code to be two separate while loops. The question is if it's possible combine those into one, adding more and more regular expressions, or if they each need a for-loop of their own.
const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")Now, this works perfectly fine as is, but I will be adding more filters and searches to it, which means I may get to a total of 8-9 while loops, which may slow the process down, or be inefficient.
javascript parsing regex
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I'm searching a set text for multiple values, which will later be stored in a database.
I am using RegExp and worked with the official documentation and help to get the code to be two separate while loops. The question is if it's possible combine those into one, adding more and more regular expressions, or if they each need a for-loop of their own.
const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")Now, this works perfectly fine as is, but I will be adding more filters and searches to it, which means I may get to a total of 8-9 while loops, which may slow the process down, or be inefficient.
javascript parsing regex
edited Jan 10 at 18:50
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asked Jan 9 at 13:28
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up vote
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I'm searching a set text for multiple values, which will later be stored in a database.
I am using RegExp and worked with the official documentation and help to get the code to be two separate while loops. The question is if it's possible combine those into one, adding more and more regular expressions, or if they each need a for-loop of their own.
const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")Now, this works perfectly fine as is, but I will be adding more filters and searches to it, which means I may get to a total of 8-9 while loops, which may slow the process down, or be inefficient.
javascript parsing regex
edited Jan 10 at 18:50
200_success
123k14143401
asked Jan 9 at 13:28
Julian E.
1137
I'm searching a set text for multiple values, which will later be stored in a database.
I am using RegExp and worked with the official documentation and help to get the code to be two separate while loops. The question is if it's possible combine those into one, adding more and more regular expressions, or if they each need a for-loop of their own.
const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")Now, this works perfectly fine as is, but I will be adding more filters and searches to it, which means I may get to a total of 8-9 while loops, which may slow the process down, or be inefficient.
const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")const regex = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const regex2 = /AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE (.*)/g;
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
let m;
let x;
while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (m.index === regex.lastIndex)
regex.lastIndex++;
console.log(m[1])
while ((x = regex2.exec(str)) !== null)
// This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches
if (x.index === regex2.lastIndex)
regex2.lastIndex++;
console.log(x[1])
console.log("We're done here")javascript parsing regex
edited Jan 10 at 18:50
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123k14143401
asked Jan 9 at 13:28
Julian E.
1137
edited Jan 10 at 18:50
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123k14143401
edited Jan 10 at 18:50
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edited Jan 10 at 18:50
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123k14143401
asked Jan 9 at 13:28
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asked Jan 9 at 13:28
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asked Jan 9 at 13:28
Julian E.
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You don't need a loop, you can use the string's match method, but in order to get only the matched group you have to use a lookbehind, which javascript's implementation of regex doesn't support, but, it does support a lookahead, so basically, you could reverse it, reverse all the matches and filter out empty strings to get the reservation codes. Since you only have a single match for the names you don't need a loop for that either, assuming there will always be a match, so you can just use exec and pop the result off the end..
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);answered Jan 9 at 14:09
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Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the textAIRLINE RESERVATION CODE, we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will containDEPARTURE CODE XXXand you want to matchXXXyou can use the same trick:r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g<- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed:rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, thegflag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
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1 Answer
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1 Answer
1
active
oldest
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
1
down vote
accepted
You don't need a loop, you can use the string's match method, but in order to get only the matched group you have to use a lookbehind, which javascript's implementation of regex doesn't support, but, it does support a lookahead, so basically, you could reverse it, reverse all the matches and filter out empty strings to get the reservation codes. Since you only have a single match for the names you don't need a loop for that either, assuming there will always be a match, so you can just use exec and pop the result off the end..
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the textAIRLINE RESERVATION CODE, we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will containDEPARTURE CODE XXXand you want to matchXXXyou can use the same trick:r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g<- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed:rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, thegflag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
 |Â
show 7 more comments
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
You don't need a loop, you can use the string's match method, but in order to get only the matched group you have to use a lookbehind, which javascript's implementation of regex doesn't support, but, it does support a lookahead, so basically, you could reverse it, reverse all the matches and filter out empty strings to get the reservation codes. Since you only have a single match for the names you don't need a loop for that either, assuming there will always be a match, so you can just use exec and pop the result off the end..
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the textAIRLINE RESERVATION CODE, we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will containDEPARTURE CODE XXXand you want to matchXXXyou can use the same trick:r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g<- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed:rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, thegflag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
 |Â
show 7 more comments
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
up vote
1
down vote
accepted
You don't need a loop, you can use the string's match method, but in order to get only the matched group you have to use a lookbehind, which javascript's implementation of regex doesn't support, but, it does support a lookahead, so basically, you could reverse it, reverse all the matches and filter out empty strings to get the reservation codes. Since you only have a single match for the names you don't need a loop for that either, assuming there will always be a match, so you can just use exec and pop the result off the end..
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
You don't need a loop, you can use the string's match method, but in order to get only the matched group you have to use a lookbehind, which javascript's implementation of regex doesn't support, but, it does support a lookahead, so basically, you could reverse it, reverse all the matches and filter out empty strings to get the reservation codes. Since you only have a single match for the names you don't need a loop for that either, assuming there will always be a match, so you can just use exec and pop the result off the end..
const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);const str = `30 OCT 2017 04 NOV 2017
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s): 0
Distance (in Miles):500
Stop(s):0
TRIP TO KRAKOW, POLAND
PREPARED FOR
DOE/JANE MRS
APPLESEED/JOHN MR
RESERVATION CODE UVWXYZ
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE DING67 (OS)
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE HDY75S (OS)`;
var r1 = / (.*)(?= EDOC NOITAVRESER ENILRIA)/g,
r2 = /PREPARED FOR([^]*?)RESERVATION/g;
const rev = s=>s.split('').reverse().join('').trim();
let x = r2.exec(str).pop();
let m = rev(str).match(r1).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length);
console.log(x);
console.log(m);answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
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edited Jan 10 at 15:26
answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
answered Jan 9 at 14:09
Occam's Razor
1,982513
1,982513
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the textAIRLINE RESERVATION CODE, we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will containDEPARTURE CODE XXXand you want to matchXXXyou can use the same trick:r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g<- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed:rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, thegflag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
 |Â
show 7 more comments
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the textAIRLINE RESERVATION CODE, we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will containDEPARTURE CODE XXXand you want to matchXXXyou can use the same trick:r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g<- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed:rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, thegflag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.
– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
Awesome! Thank you! One question though, I will have to add more code and regex to search for departures as well as for dates and times, when there may be more than one match. Is the same applicable then, of using look ahead a or will I need to figure something else out? Thank you!
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:18
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the text
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE , we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will contain DEPARTURE CODE XXX and you want to match XXX you can use the same trick: r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g <- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed: rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
@JulianE. -What we're doing is looking for anything that comes after the text
AIRLINE RESERVATION CODE , we're doing that by reversing both the needle and the haystack and instead searching for anything that comes before the reversed needle. If your haystack will contain DEPARTURE CODE XXX and you want to match XXX you can use the same trick: r3 = /(.*)(?= EDOC ERUTRAPED)/g <- you still need to reverse the string and then reverse the matches and filter like I showed: rev(str).match(r3).map(rev).filter(w=>w.length)– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:38
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
Awesome! And this also works when there’ll be multiple instances of say, the departure code? And thank you very much for your help, to fully understand this. The reversing we’re doing is because of how JS implemented RegExp?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:39
@JulianE. - Yes sir, the
g flag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
@JulianE. - Yes sir, the
g flag means it will pull all the matches all at once, even if there's more than one. And yes, we're reversing because Javascript's implementation of RegEx doesn't include lookbehinds, but it supports lookaheads, so we reverse it and use lookaheads instead of lookbehinds.– Occam's Razor
Jan 9 at 16:46
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
Awesome! Thank you so much!! That really helped, and thanks for the explanation! You really rock! And I’ll going to assume there’s an awesome story to your username?
– Julian E.
Jan 9 at 16:48
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