I'm using the Microsoft regular expression engine in Excel VBA. I'm very new to regex but I have a pattern working right now. I need to expand it and I'm having trouble. Here is my code so far:
Sub ImportFromDTD()
Dim sDTDFile As Variant
Dim ffile As Long
Dim sLines() As String
Dim i As Long
Dim Reg1 As RegExp
Dim M1 As MatchCollection
Dim M As Match
Dim myRange As Range
Set Reg1 = New RegExp
ffile = FreeFile
sDTDFile = Application.GetOpenFilename("DTD Files,*.XML", , _
"Browse for file to be imported")
If sDTDFile = False Then Exit Sub '(user cancelled import file browser)
Open sDTDFile For Input Access Read As #ffile
Lines = Split(Input$(LOF(ffile), #ffile), vbNewLine)
Close #ffile
Cells(1, 2) = "From DTD"
J = 2
For i = 0 To UBound(Lines)
'Debug.Print "Line"; i; "="; Lines(i)
With Reg1
'.Pattern = "(\<\!ELEMENT\s)(\w*)(\s*\(\#\w*\)\s*\>)"
.Pattern = "(\<\!ELEMENT\s)(\w*)(\s*\(\#\w*\)\s*\>)"
.Global = True
.MultiLine = True
.IgnoreCase = False
End With
If Reg1.Test(Lines(i)) Then
Set M1 = Reg1.Execute(Lines(i))
For Each M In M1
sExtract = M.SubMatches(1)
sExtract = Replace(sExtract, Chr(13), "")
Cells(J, 2) = sExtract
J = J + 1
'Debug.Print sExtract
Next M
End If
Next i
Set Reg1 = Nothing
End Sub
Currently, I'm matching on a set of data like this:
and extract Dealnumber but now, I need to add another match on data like this:
and extract just Dealparty without the Parens and the +
I've been using this as a reference and it's awesome but I'm still a bit confused. How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops
EDIT
I have come across a few new scenarios that have to be matched on.
Extract Deal
Extract DealParty the ?,CR are throwing me off
LiabilityPercent,AgentInd,FacilityNo?,PartyReferenceNo?,
PartyAddlReferenceNo?,PartyEffectiveDate?,FeeRate?,ChargeType?) >
Extract Deals
Answer
You could use this Regex
pattern;
.Pattern = "\<\!ELEMENT\s+(\w+)\s+\((#\w+|(\w+)\+)\)\s+\>"
- This portion
(#\w+|(\w+)\+)
says match either
#a-z0-9
a-z0-9+
inside the parentheses.
ie match either
(#PCDATA)
(DealParty+)
to validate the entire string
- Then the submatches are used to extract DealNumber for the first valid match, DealParty for the other valid match
edited code below - note submatch is now M.submatches(0)
Sub ImportFromDTD()
Dim sDTDFile As Variant
Dim ffile As Long
Dim sLines() As String
Dim i As Long
Dim Reg1 As RegExp
Dim M1 As MatchCollection
Dim M As Match
Dim myRange As Range
Set Reg1 = New RegExp
J = 1
strIn = " "
With Reg1
.Pattern = "\<\!ELEMENT\s+(\w+)\s+\((#\w+|(\w+)\+)\)\s+\>"
.Global = True
.MultiLine = True
.IgnoreCase = False
End With
If Reg1.Test(strIn) Then
Set M1 = Reg1.Execute(strIn)
For Each M In M1
sExtract = M.SubMatches(2)
If Len(sExtract) = 0 Then sExtract = M.SubMatches(0)
sExtract = Replace(sExtract, Chr(13), "")
Cells(J, 2) = sExtract
J = J + 1
Next M
End If
Set Reg1 = Nothing
End Sub
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