Re: Regular expression help

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wrote:

Need to parse through our code files and find every instance of other
files referenced, looking for included files, images, etc.  The
expression I'm using is

("|')(.*)(\.asp|\.htm(l)?|\.gif|\.jpg)("|')

Which works great.

Now what I need to do and can't figure out is how to exclude certain
matches, as in

<!--#include file="../../myincludefiles/sqlConnection.asp"-->
<a href="http://www.ourserver.com/somebranchfile.asp";>

I don't want anything (for instance) that includes the strings
'myincludefiles' or 'http' inside the quotes.


Assuming you don't want to match strings that *start* with "http":

  ("|')(?!http|.*?myincludefiles).*?(?:\.asp|\.html?|\.gif|\.jpg)\1"

The change to exclude strings the include "http" anywhere is trivial
(see the pattern for excluding "myincludefiles:).

--
Steve

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a
choice. -William James
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