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I have a temporary solution to this problem, but I believe it to be wasteful and am hoping a better solution exists. What I think the answer should be is a RegExMatch that grabs only the last pattern in a string.

I have a (potentially) long body of text with a template in it, and I want to match parts of the template. It is likely that this template will appear more than once in the text, and I want to only match the LAST instance of this template.

The Template (and Match target):
* Operator's name: - $$$$$$$$$$
* Equipment model: - $$$$$$$$$
* Reported Issues: - $$$$$$$$$$

The $'s are the pieces I want to match. Really, it just needs to match to the end of the line after the dash (-), which may be more than one word (often, on the reported issues, it is a full sentence). If there is a better method for matching to the end of the current line I would also be interested in learning that.

The code so far (poor, I know)


I know I don't need the brackets on the one-line if-statements, but I don't like the way it looks with just a tab. Sorry if that makes it cluttered.

I have tried negative look-aheads with dotall enabled, but I can't get them to work properly in AHK or Gskinner (a popular browser-based regex tester). Instead of matching the last instance it grabs the first match and EVERYTHING after it.

I am interested in anything that is more efficient than a parsing loop, but because I already have a working solution I am much more intersted in figuring out the general solution of finding the last match of a pattern.

If this thread has already been made, I couldn't find it (I looked... hard), and I am sorry for duplicating.

Note: I have tested with a look-behind, I only used \K because it was shorter. They both work,

I'm far from an RegEx expert, so maybe wrong suggestion, but is this useful?:

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Neither of those work, but I think you guys misunderstood. The template I listed doesn't have other lines in between the ones I want, it appears exactly as I listed it. It just appears multiple times, in its entirety.

Like this.




When I run this function, it needs to report back



I hope that clears it up.

RegEx is usually a last resort for me. I start by looking for a simpler method.

EDIT: Here's a RegEx anyway.

The problem is the template (and therefore the text I am looking for) is not going to be the end of the string, so grabbing the last three lines is not going to get the output needed.

I still think a RegEx for finding the last instance of a pattern in a multi-line string is going to be the best way of finding this, given that there are variables in what the string contains.

Does anyone know how to accomplish this in AHK?

I thought this meant there was no more text after the pattern, sorry about that. Here's one that seems to work, in that case....whether it's more efficient than a parsing loop, I don't know.

I think I was just failing to be clear. I said that because other people where adding lines inbetween the ones I listed, so I was trying to clarify that that wouldn't happen. I Just went to far in the other direction.

Thanks though, that code seems to work.