Parsing a file with RegEx

[AFterlife]

[PLAIN][RESOLVED]Parsing a file with RegEx[/PLAIN]

 

Hi.

 

I normally use substring and other methods to parse files.But I wanted to try something new.I am parsing the file as its streaming from an FTP server on the Web with ASP.Maybe I am in the wrong section.Plus my first time using REgEx..lol.I downloaded that espresso regex tutorial last night.

 

I am having a problem retriveing all of the player names and I don't know why.

Here is a small example output of the file.Oh and my first time trying 2005.I have used 2002 or 2003 in the past.

 

1158089131
[Tue Sep 12 14:25:31 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 14:25:31 2006] ------------------------------------------
[Tue Sep 12 14:25:31 2006] Server started.
[Tue Sep 12 18:26:22 2006] Client connected: StoNer
[Tue Sep 12 18:26:51 2006] Client connected: ||3RB||Multigun
[Tue Sep 12 18:34:52 2006] Client connected: B&F_PROSMOKER
[Tue Sep 12 18:36:20 2006] Client connected: ChibiPyro
[Tue Sep 12 18:38:40 2006] Client connected: [TF]Sabrina
[Tue Sep 12 18:40:14 2006] Client connected: RED_jºnbºy
[Tue Sep 12 18:40:42 2006] Client connected: Kalekemo
[Tue Sep 12 18:40:46 2006] Client disconnected: RED_jºnbºy
[Tue Sep 12 18:41:39 2006] Client connected: ConChip
[Tue Sep 12 18:43:35 2006] Client connected: Player
[Tue Sep 12 18:45:15 2006] Client disconnected: ConChip
[Tue Sep 12 18:45:34 2006] Client disconnected: B&F_PROSMOKER
[Tue Sep 12 18:46:31 2006] Client disconnected: Player
[Tue Sep 12 18:46:41 2006] Client connected: Player
[Tue Sep 12 18:46:47 2006] Client disconnected: Player
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] *** Results for Map: Worlds\ReleaseMultiplayer\DOOME4M9v2
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team: Team 1
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 7
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Player: StoNer (uid: ce35bbd1d0cfeb354ad6c51a45e86a80)
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 771
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Kills: 30
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Deaths: 16
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team Kills: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Suicides: 1
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Objective: 645
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Player: [TF]Sabrina (uid: 3a9f1c3bcabec404751b8ce6db9b3f78)
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 20
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Kills: 3
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Deaths: 6
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team Kills: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Suicides: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Objective: 10
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team: Team 2
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 2
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Player: ||3RB||Multigun (uid: b9e14e8150b253cd0e8a6188dec759c1)
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 318
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Kills: 13
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Deaths: 27
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team Kills: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Suicides: 2
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Objective: 290
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] 
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Player: ChibiPyro (uid: 9c2e0c51e128fd45f3bab7a8cc9a2282)
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Score: 188
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Kills: 13
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Deaths: 12
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Team Kills: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Suicides: 0
[Tue Sep 12 18:48:09 2006] Objective: 135

 

Basically I am creating a Player stats system.I Have 2 classes.CPlayer the defines all the attributes of a player and a CPlayerList(The one I am having problems with Class).This Class creates instances of Cplayer and parses the file then adds them to a collection that can be retrieved by index number.It seems like its starts about 3 players down from top and 3 players up from bottom.My hope was to parse this file everynight once a day and then save it to a file on a different webserver.Parsed comma delimited so it's easy to use.I thought maybe it was having problems reading and parsing the data at the same time.But there is no application.doevents() in ASP.Maybe Threading?

 

I'll show you just the part that seems to be a miss...

 

  Try
           Dim Player As CPlayer

           Do While reader.Read
               Dim myPlayer As String
               If GetPlayerNames(myPlayer) <> Nothing Then
                   Player = New CPlayer
                   Player.Name = GetPlayerNames(myPlayer)
                   lbox.Items.Add(Player.Name)
               End If    

           Loop
           reader.Close()

       Catch ex As Exception

       End Try

'The Function here
Public Function GetPlayerNames(ByVal myPlayer As String) As String
       Dim reg As Regex = New Regex("\:+\s[a-zA-Z0-9<>?,.{}+_&=!@#$%-|`*^:/;()~]+\s*\(u*")
       Dim m As Match = reg.Match(myPlayer)
       myPlayer = m.Value.TrimStart(": ")
       Dim temp As String = myPlayer.Replace("(u", "  ")
       
       Return temp
   End Function

 

EDIT:I figured it out

I had to do this

   Do While reader.Read
               Dim myPlayer As String
             
               Dim TempPlayers As String
               myPlayer = reader.ReadLine
             
               TempPlayers = GetPlayerNames(myPlayer)
               If TempPlayers <> Nothing Then
                   Player = New CPlayer
                   Player.Name = GetPlayerNames(myPlayer)
                   cList.Items.Add(Player.Name)
               End If

Edited September 14, 2006 by AFterlife