comparing string using regular expression in VBA

[perlperl]

how to regular expression in VBA

my string is "The operating system is Win32"

This is what i do in perl
if $string =~ /Thes operating system is Win32|Linux|Unix/ {

}

which mean the OS can be unix Linux or Win32

How this can be achieved in VBA

[John Nurick]

You have to use the VBScript Regexp object:

Dim oRE As Object 'VBScript_RegExp_55.RegExp

Set oRE = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")

oRE.Pattern = "The operating system is Win32|Linux|Unix"

If oRE.Test("The operating system is Win32") Then
'Match found

End If

For some links to documentation see
http://www.j.nurick.dial.pipex.com/Code/vbRegex/MoreAboutRegexp.htm

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[perlperl]

If oRE.Test("The operating system is Win32") Then

this won't work, as i said in my example, it can be eithe Win32, Linux
or Unix (also I don't want 3 different if statements....)

can I do

If oRE.Test("The operating system is Win32|Linux|Unix") Then

[TC]

John showed you a pattern that will match the statement:

"The operating system is X"

where X can be "Win32", or "Linux", or "Unix".

If that's not what you want, please describe what you /do/ want.

HTH,
TC (MVP Access)
http://tc2.atspace.com

[perlperl]

actually my bad, i din't gave the correct example.
to be more specific, i m looking to comapre IP address which can be of
the format
22.223.22.234 which is integer.integer.integer.integer (integer can be
1 or 2 or 3 digit)

i tried the pattern
oRE.Pattern = "\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+"

If oRE.Test(.Text) Then ' .Text contains the IP address

It didn't worked

[perlperl]

If my IP is 4.4.4.4
then oRE.Pattern = "[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+" works

but if the IP is 44.4.4.4, it does not work

[TC]

That looks ok from what I remember.

Do you need to enbracket the periods? [0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.] etc

[perlperl]

Yep, You are absolutely correct...
I did [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9] It worked

[TC]

Great, well done!