Ok, I give up ;-)
I'm trying to write a syntax file for a "pipe" delimeted file, lines look
something like the example below. I started off ok and got the first number
and timestamp via syn match, but then thought there is probably an easier way
to do regexp tagging on the fields based on the delimeter character, but I
can't seem to figure out the regexp syntax.
00001 | timestamp | 001| text4 | text5 | text6 | text7 | text8
Say I want to define Field4, I was trying stuff like:
syn match FieldFour "^[^|]+|[^|]+|[^|]+|[^|]+|"
which I though would be "any number of anything not a pipe, then a pipe"
repeated four times. Also tried escaping those pipes in brackets too thinking
| was interpreted as "or" but not sure if that is correct in this flavor of
regexp.
Also tried a few unsuccessfull versions of:
syn match FieldFour "^(.*|){5}"
How do you match "just the text after the Nth pipe?"
These worked for the first two fields.., but going beyond that without just
using the occurance of the delimiter somehow probably isn't worth it..
syn match TimeStamp "^\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d| \d\d\d\d/\d\d/\d\d
\d\d:\d\d:\d\d\.\d\d\d"
syn match IndexNumber "^\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d" containedin=TimeStamp contained
thanks,
Keith
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