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Hi,

I'm hoping that someone will have a suggestion for me because I've been working with the regular expressions descriptions over and over, and I can't figure out how to make double-click "jump-to's" work in the command results window with my compiler.

My compiler generates messages like this:

...
148. INCLUDE T: qryrailcarstatcentrespa00.inc
149. INCLUDE U: qryrailcarstatloclrespa00.inc
150. INCLUDE V: qryrailcarvinrespa00.inc
151. INCLUDE W: qrytrkrespa00.inc
152. INCLUDE X: qryvinramposrespa00.inc
153. INCLUDE Y: qryvinreqbayrespa00.inc
154. INCLUDE Z: sbmtadhocrespa00.inc
155. INCLUDE AA: sbmtasnrespa00.inc
156. INCLUDE AB: sbmtvingateactrespa00.inc
...

There are two things going on here. First of all, most of the lines just refer to include files. I'd like to be able to double-click on the file names and open those files. Thus far, I've not been able to figure out how to write a regular expression to do this. Can anyone be of any help with this?

Thanks in advance,
Brian

Assuming the qryrailcarstatcentrespa00.inc etc are filenames in the current directory and that the error line always starts with a number and has ": " before the filename then the following reg expression should work with "File:" set to 1

^[0-9]+. [^:]+: \([.[:alnum:]]+\)

...or have I missed the point?

Ed,

Thank you very much. The expression ^[0-9]+. [^:]+: \([.[:alnum:]]+\) was almost exactly what I needed. Since there may be leading spaces in the numeric string, I changed the ^[0-9] part of the expression to ^.*[0-9], and since underscore and other such characters may appear in the filenames, I changed [:alnum:] to [:print:]. The resulting expression is:

^.*[0-9]+. [^:]+: \([.[:print:]]+\)

Everything is working just as it should now. Thank you very much for your help.

Brian

Hi, Brian,

to take care of leading spaces, it would be more correct to use:

^[ ]*[0-9]+. [^:]+: \([.[:print:]]+\)

since the period matches anything including the numbers.

Carlyle