Polyglot has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Background: I'm trying to parse some text for page numbers, and some page numbers are missing. The original book may not have had a number on every page, so the skipped pages may be legitimate. However, due to variations in the HTML, some page numbers may have been missed by the parser. So I'm creating a regex to find possible skips so as to tag them properly.
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Pages which have already been identified will be tagged in the format of (<a id="GC_2"></a>) where the "GC" is the book code and the number is the page. There is little point in looking for a skipped page out of its range, so I'm trying to match only between these tags where the page should be.
Code example:
my $replace = sub { push @findmissing, "$bookabbrev\t$1\t$2\t$3\n"; return '' }; foreach (0..$#missingpages) { chomp $missingpages[$_]; my $skipped=$missingpages[$_]; my $before=qq|<a id="$bookabbrev\_|.($skipped-1).qq|">|; my $after=qq|<a id="$bookabbrev\_|.($skipped+1).qq|">|; s/$before.*?(.{0,25})(?<!\d)($missingpages[$_])(?>\D)(.{0,25}).*?$afte +r/$replace->()/eg for @source; }
In the above, the "$skipped-1" and "$skipped+1" should really just be something like "<$skipped" and ">$skipped" because there are times when several consecutive pages are skipped, and the code could never hope to find a tag for the one just before or just after each of them. I've looked here and via Google and found that I can use an "if-then" type of expression within a regex, but have found no examples for how to do this. How would you do this? |
Here is a sample of the output that gets pushed into @findmissing to help me scan for legitimate missed numbers (neither of these was a page number, as evidenced by the context).
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Oh, and this is slow as molassess/ (??{$missingpages[$_]-1|$missingpages[$_]-2|$missingpages[$_]-3|$m +issingpages[$_]-4|$missingpages[$_]-5|$missingpages[$_]-6}) .*? (.{0,30}) (?<!\d) ($missingpages[$_]) (?>\D) (.{0,30}) .*? (??{$missingpages[$_]+1|$missingpages[$_]+2|$missingpages[$_]+3|$m +issingpages[$_]+4|$missingpages[$_]+5|$missingpages[$_]+6}) /$replace->()/egx for @source;
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Re: How to use "less than" and "greater than" inside a regex for a $variable number
by LanX (Saint) on Oct 01, 2012 at 20:52 UTC | |
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Oct 01, 2012 at 21:28 UTC | |
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 02, 2012 at 03:18 UTC | |
by Polyglot (Chaplain) on Oct 04, 2012 at 19:42 UTC | |
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 06, 2012 at 10:41 UTC | |
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