Regular expression FOR/DIR

[nickles]

Found the following inconsistency:

> 20110707_algol.dat
dir ::"^201\d{5,5}.*.dat$"
rem shows the file
for %i in (::"^201\d{5,5}.*.dat$") echo %i
rem doesn't show the file

I additionaly tried /f and /w switches - to no avail. Am I doing sth wrong?

nickles

 

[Peter Bratton]

Found the following inconsistency:

> 20110707_algol.dat
dir ::"^201\d{5,5}.*.dat$"
rem shows the file
for %i in (::"^201\d{5,5}.*.dat$") echo %i
rem doesn't show the file

I additionaly tried /f and /w switches - to no avail. Am I doing sth wrong?

nickles

Putting the double-colon inside the double-quotes got the expression working for me:

> for /w z in ("::^201\d{5,5}.*.dat$") dir %z
C:\tmp\20110707_algol.dat
C:\tmp\20110708_algol.dat
C:\tmp\20110709_algol.dat
C:\tmp\20110710_algol.dat

This syntax works with TCC Regular Expression Syntax configured for PERL, Ruby, Java, or GNU, but not grep or POSIX.

HTH
--
Peter

 

[nickles]

Thanks for your answer Peter! This solves it.

@rconn

Please update the documentation under "Wildcards and Regular Expressions". The example at the very bottom reads

dir ::"^\w{1,8}\.btm$"

nickles