I'm a new programmer in iOS and in the app I'm developing I have the need to create a regular expression to match a numeric range giving two numbers.
I found this answer(in Java) that basically does what I need. How to generate a regular expression at runtime to match a numeric range
I have converted the code to Objective-C and when comparing the results with this site http://utilitymill.com/utility/Regex_For_Range the results don't match, probably I've made a mistake somewhere or the code does not work properly.
Any of you guys have know where I can find something similar but in Objective-C?
Here's my converted code:
-(NSString *) BaseRange:(NSString*)num Bool:(BOOL)up BoolLeading:(BOOL)leading1{
unichar c = [num characterAtIndex:0];
unichar low;
unichar high;
if(up == YES){
low=c;
}else{
if (leading1==YES){
low = '1';
}else{
low='0';
}
}
if(up==YES){
high ='9';
}else{
high = c;
}
if(num.length ==1)
return [self charClass:low Other:high];
NSString *re = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%hu (%@)", c, [self BaseRange:[num substringToIndex:1] Bool:up BoolLeading:NO]];
if(up)
{
low++;
}else{
high--;
}
if(low <= high){
NSString * temp = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@|%@%@",re, [self charClass:low Other:high], [self nDigits:[num length] -1]];
re = temp;
}
return re;
}
-(NSString *) charClass:(unichar)b Other:(unichar)e{
if (b==e) {
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c", b];
}
else if(b-e>1)
{
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"[%c-%c]", b, e];
}
else
{
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"[%c%c]", b, e];
}
}
-(NSString *) nDigits:(int)n{
return [self nDigits:n otherDigit:n];
}
-(NSString *) nDigits:(int)n otherDigit:(int)m{
if (n==m) {
return @"[0-9]";
}else if (n==1){
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"[0-9]{%d}", n];
}else{
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"[0-9]{%d,%d}", n,m];
}
}
-(NSString *) eqLengths:(NSString *)from OtherString:(NSString*)to{
unichar fc = [from characterAtIndex:0];
unichar tc = [to characterAtIndex:0];
if(from.length == 1 && to.length == 1){
return [self charClass:fc Other:tc];
}
if(fc == tc){
return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%hu(%@)",fc,[self rangeRegex:[from substringToIndex:1] otherValue:[to substringToIndex:1]]];
}
NSString *re = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%hu(%@)|%hu(%@)",fc,[self BaseRange:[from substringFromIndex:1] Bool:YES BoolLeading:NO],tc,[self BaseRange:[to substringFromIndex:1] Bool:NO BoolLeading:NO]];
if (++fc <=--tc) {
re = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@|%@%@", re,[self charClass:fc Other:tc],[self nDigits:[from length]-1]];
}
return re;
}
-(NSString *) nonEqLengths:(NSString *)from OtherString:(NSString *)to{
NSString *re = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@|%@",[self BaseRange:from Bool:YES BoolLeading:NO],[self BaseRange:to Bool:NO BoolLeading:YES]];
if ([to length] - [from length] > 1)
re = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@|[1-9]%@",re,[self nDigits:[from length] otherDigit:[to length]-2]];
//re += "|[1-9]" + nDigits([from length], [to length] - 2);
return re;
}
-(NSString *) rangeRegex:(NSString *)n otherValue:(NSString *)m{
if(n.length == m.length)
{
return [self eqLengths:n OtherString:m];
}else{
return [self nonEqLengths:n OtherString:m];
}
}
Results: Range 100 - 1000
Result from my code: 49 ([19])|[29][0-9]|49 ([01])
Expected result from the website: ([1-9][0-9]{2}|1000)
Range 0 - 5000
Result from my code: [09]|53 ([05])|[14][0-9]|[1-9][0-9]{1}
Expected result from the website: ^([0-9]{1,3}|[1-4][0-9]{3}|5000)$