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What is regular expression for the following thing?

by sanjay nayak (Sexton)
on Oct 20, 2008 at 08:58 UTC ( [id://718166]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

sanjay nayak has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:


Hi Monks

Plz suggest me a suitable Regular expression for the following conditions.

REGISTER or INVITE or BYE (space) some text or digit or both -(hypen) or @ or _(underscore sign) some text or digit or both . some text or digit or both space SIP/2.0.

For example

my $text="REGISTER acti-abc.test SIP/2.0";

If ($text ~= /^REGISTER|INVITE|BYE\s\w\.\w\sSIP\/2.0/)

The above is not working properly, Plz suggest me a suitable regular expression for the above.

Regd's
Sanjay
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Re: What is regular expression for the following thing?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2008 at 09:07 UTC

    /^REGISTER|INVITE|BYE\s\w\.\w\sSIP\/2.0/
    means
    ^REGISTER or INVITE or BYE\s\w\.\w\sSIP\/2.0
    You need to limit the extent of the alternation.
    /^(?:REGISTER|INVITE|BYE)\s\w\.\w\sSIP\/2.0/

    There's also the issue that the last "." should be "\.".

    There's also the issue that the "\w" doesn't match what you want it to match. You'll have to use a character class ([...]) instead.

Re: What is regular expression for the following thing?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2008 at 09:08 UTC

    You have an error with precedence in your regular expression. The alternation (|) doesn't know where you want it to stop. See YAPE::Regex::Explain if you want a module that explains regular expressions to you.

    Your regular expression currently matches like

    (?-imsx:^REGISTER|INVITE|BYE\s\w\.\w\sSIP/2.0) matches as follows: NODE EXPLANATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ^ the beginning of the string ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTER 'REGISTER' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | OR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITE 'INVITE' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | OR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BYE 'BYE' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \w word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \. '.' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \w word characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \s whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SIP/2 'SIP/2' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . any character except \n ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 '0' ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Maybe you want the Net::SIP module instead of writing your own module?

    As an aside, putting your code between <code>...</code> tags makes the code render and download nicely for those who want to try it.

    Update: YAPE::Regex::Explain installed and I updated the explanation

Re: What is regular expression for the following thing?
by pysome (Scribe) on Oct 20, 2008 at 09:40 UTC
    ~= is not a Perl Match operation.Pls replace it with "=~"
Re: What is regular expression for the following thing?
by Punitha (Priest) on Oct 20, 2008 at 09:13 UTC

    Hi sanjay nayak

    You can have a quick reference about the perl regular expressions here http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html

    Moreover in your example coding you misused the matching operator. It should be =~ and you may want something like this

    if ($text =~ /^(?:REGISTER|INVITE|BYE)\s\w+[-@_]\w+\.\w+\sSIP\/2\.0/) { print "IN:$text\n"; }

    Punitha

      I think you meant [-\@_].
      >perl -le"@_='abc'; print qr/[-@_]/;" (?-xism:[-abc])
Re: What is regular expression for the following thing?
by luckypower (Beadle) on Oct 20, 2008 at 09:13 UTC
    hey sanjay ,
    use this one..
     if ($text =~ /^(REGISTER|INVITE|BYE)\s\w+(-|@|_)\w+\.\w+\sSIP\/2\.0$/)

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