In this update of my translate program, I added support for searching and replacing with regular expressions.
Option -r (regex) uses a regular expression to search through the file and then calls the provided function with a match argument for each matched string. The return value of the function (a string) is used to replace the matched string.
Option -R (filterregex) is similar to option -r (regex), except that it does not operate on the complete file, but on the file filtered for the regex.
Here are 2 examples with a regex. The input file (test-ah.txt) contains the following: 1234&H41&H42&H43&H444321
The first command will search for strings &Hxx and replace them with the character represented in ASCII by hexadecimal number xx:
translate.py -r “&H(..)” test-ah.txt “lambda m: chr(int(m.groups()[0], 16))”
Output: 1234ABCD4321
The second command is exactly the same as the first command, except that it uses option -R in stead or -r:
translate.py -R “&H(..)” test-ah.txt “lambda m: chr(int(m.groups()[0], 16))”
Output: ABCD
In this output, strings that do not match the regular expression are filtered out.
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