Hi António

Subject to testing, that's it!  Many thanks.

Paul


On 12/12/2022 13:54, António Tavares Lopes wrote:
Paul,

An implementation of the NumberAtEnd method using Regular Expressions
(changed the pattern to give a bit more robustness):

m.acid1 = "Methionine = (S)-2-amino-4-(methylsulfanyl)-butanoic acid (2.13)"
m.acid2 = "Methionine = (S)-2-amino-4-(methylsulfanyl)-butanoic acid"

? NumberAtEnd(m.acid1)  && 2.13
? NumberAtEnd(m.acid2)  && FAIL

FUNCTION NumberAtEnd (Test AS String) AS String

   LOCAL Regx AS VBScript_RegExp_55.RegExp
   LOCAL Matches AS VBScript_RegExp_55.MatchCollection
   LOCAL Result AS String

   m.Regx = CREATEOBJECT("VBScript.RegExp")

   m.Regx.Pattern = "(\(([0-9]+(\" + SET("Point") + "[0-9]+)?)\))$"

   m.Matches = m.Regx.Execute(m.Test)

   IF m.Matches.Count == 1
     m.Result = m.Matches.Item(0).SubMatches.item(1)
   ELSE
     m.Result = "FAIL"
   ENDIF

   RETURN m.Result

ENDFUNC


On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 1:10 PM Paul Newton<[email protected]>
wrote:

Hi all

I've been very quiet for a while so I thought it was about time I chimed
in again. I have come across the use of a regex expression in another
language which works like this:

acid1 = "Methionine = (S)-2-amino-4-(methylsulfanyl)-butanoic acid (2.13)"
acid2 = "Methionine = (S)-2-amino-4-(methylsulfanyl)-butanoic acid"

NumberAtEnd:= proc(S::string)
description
      "Extract a parenthesized number, possibly containing periods, from
the end of a string":
local r;
      if StringTools:-RegMatch("\\(([0-9.]*)\\)$", S, r$2) then r else
FAIL fi
end proc:

NumberAtEnd(acid1) returns "2.13"
NumberAtEnd(acid2) returns "FAIL"

How can this be done in VFP?  Many thanks

Paul Newton
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