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mortaZa
mortaZa

Reputation: 115

Regexp to match but don't capture middle part

Im trying to create my own theme in Sublime Text 2 to highlight CSS syntax. All I have left is keyframes.

@-webkit-keyframes spin { /* some rules */ }

@-moz-keyframes colorize { /* some rules */ }

@-ms-keyframes spin { /* some rules */ }

@-o-keyframes spin { /* some rules */ }

@keyframes colorize { /* some rules */ }


I want to highlight the initial @ and the word keyframes without highlighting engines prefixes, like -webkit-, or -moz-, so only @keyframes must be returned.

What is the right regexp for that?

I tried: 

((?<=-webkit-)|(?<=-moz-)|(?<=-ms-)|(?<=-o-)|)keyframes

but that doesn't include the @ and doesn't even return the keyframes in Sublime text at all.


Update ----

Thanks to Cheruvian, I realized what was in front of me all along.

Sublime's parser structure is (I added the comments after I realized what are the <key>name</key>):

<dict>
    <!-- Regexp pattern -->
    <key>match</key>
    <string>\s*(@)(-(webkit|moz|ms|o)-)?(keyframes)</string>

    <!-- Referencing to the groups captured above -->
    <key>captures</key>
    <dict>

        <!-- 1st group captured -->
        <key>1</key>
        <dict>

            <!-- Referencing name -->
            <key>name</key>
            <string>keyword.control.keyframes.css</string>
        </dict>

        <!-- 2nd group captured -->
        <key>2</key>
        <dict>

            <!-- Referencing name -->
            <key>name</key>
            <string>punctuation.definition.keyword.css</string>
        </dict>

        <!-- n group captured -->
        <key>n</key>
        <dict>

            <!-- Referencing name -->
            <key>name</key>
            <string>some.name.css</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>



From that, all I had to do was to group the regex and select the groups I wanted and give them some unique referencing strings.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 93

Answers (1)

Cheruvian
Cheruvian

Reputation: 5877

Assuming sublime uses capturing groups you can use:

(@).*?(keyframes)

regex capturing groups are indicated by parentheses. (From phone will try to clean up later)

Upvotes: 1

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