[erlang-questions] Erlang regex

[Igor Ribeiro Sucupira]

OK. So (you probably already know that) you should be fine with
something like this:

case BinStr of
    <<"OK 01 ", Rest/binary>> -> doSomethingWithRest;
    _ -> do_nothing
end.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Matteo <mcanato@REDACTED> wrote:
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> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Igor Ribeiro Sucupira <igorrs@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Pablo Polvorin
>> <pablo.polvorin@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > instead of regular expression, I would suggest to use pattern matching
>> > instead:
>> > 1> A = <<"OK 01 xxxxxxxx\r\n">>.
>> > <<"OK 01 xxxxxxxx\r\n">>
>> > 2> <<"OK 01",X/binary>> = A.
>>
>> List equivalent would be something like:
>> "OK 01 " ++ UnknownPart = Str
>>
>> The difference from my other suggestion would be that you're now
>> checking if the strings starts with "OK 01 ", instead of just cropping
>> the first 6 characters.
>
> Hi,
> only with OK 01 i've to read the next chars. In my other protocol i've got
> other OK response but they are use for tracing the state of my app, and i
> don't need to read the other chars.
>
> M.Canato
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Igor.
>>
>> > <<"OK 01 xxxxxxxx\r\n">>
>> > 3> X.
>> > <<" xxxxxxxx\r\n">>
>> >
>> > besides that, if what you are parsing is some sort of network
>> > protocol, you won't want to represent strings as lists(), but use
>> > binaries like in the previous example.
>> >
>> >
>> > 2008/5/21, Matteo <mcanato@REDACTED>:
>> >> Hi to all,
>> >> i'm a noob of erlang programming. I would like to have some infos about
>> >> extracting a substring from a string....
>> >> Or better, my situation is this:
>> >>
>> >> i have a string:
>> >> str="OK 01 xxxxxxxx\r\n"); // where xxxxxxxx is a string that i dont
>> >> know
>> >> and every time change...
>> >>
>> >> and i need to extract the "xxxxxxx" into another string (str2 for
>> >> exaple).
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for my english.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >> M.Canato
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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