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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue">Thank you all for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue">I got it working by using regex: [a-zA-Z]*.*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue">This was a bit different behavior than I was used (perl).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:blue">~lennyK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> users-bounces@shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Putman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 28, 2012 3:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Does anyone have an example of how to use regexsplit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 9/27/12 6:42 PM, Tom Poage wrote:<br>
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<pre>Is the regex like (or does it invoke) Java's split() method? If so, the regex would be composed to match the separator, i.e. "/".<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Tom.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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No, it doesn't use split, it uses java.util.regex.Matcher and java.util.regex.Pattern essentially like this:<br>
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Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);<br>
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(target);<br>
if(matcher.matches()) {<br>
return matcher.group(1);<br>
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Based on some quick testing, the following regex patterns do work on the OP's data:<br>
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^(Student|faculty|Faculty|Staff).*<br>
^(<a href="file:///\\w+).*">\\w+).*</a><br>
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Without the wildcard pattern on the end (.*) it doesn't match (matcher.matches() returns false).
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This is different than Perl 5's behavior, which does match:<br>
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perl -le '($result) = "Faculty/pt" =~ /(Student|faculty|Faculty|Staff)/; print $result;'<br>
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produces "Faculty".<br>
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Javadoc for Pattern notes that " The Pattern engine performs traditional NFA-based matching with ordered alternation as occurs in Perl 5."<br>
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I don't immediately see any reason in the docs for the different behavior between the 2. But that's what it's doing apparently.<br>
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--Brent<br>
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