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user3165323
user3165323

Reputation: 31

Search text in ActionScript with Regex

I am stuck in a problem. Actually developing search functionality. I am searching pattern for example in a following string:

test-123,this is demo.
testing?123,this is demo.
testing!jack,thanks.

Above are the three lines.

What I want is as soon as I enter test it will search all the text (i.e all three lines) and come with result:

test-123
testing?123
testing!jack

It will search from beginning of every line till the comma character and would display the matched string. It should not truncate the special character before comma part.

Like for example

test
testing
testing

The Regular Expression which I am using and displaying the above pattern is 

wordExp = ^wordHere\\w*
var iRegExp:RegExp = new RegExp(wordExp, "/gm");

It should include all the character before comma.

Please suggest the regular expression for above problem.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 80

Answers (2)

Darka
Darka

Reputation: 2768

I think you should change \w to [^,]*

Something like this, if your line will always start with given word:

^wordHere[^,]*

OR can be everywhere before comma :

^[^,]*wordHere[^,]*

I hope I helped

Upvotes: 1

Toto
Toto

Reputation: 91428

I don't know actionscript, but this may do the job:

^([^,]+)

Upvotes: 0

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