Trying to understand regex syntax in PMC

[jackblack2009]

Hi Yall,

I have a string my macro copies to the clipboard.

Wickliffe Court 25 Wickliffe Avenue LONDON N3 3EL

Im trying to extract and store the house/street, town and Postcode in different variables.

To this end, Here I'm first trying to extract the street.

Using

https://regexr.com/

The following code seems to work.

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.*(?=\s[A-Z]{3,})

Spoiler

Pick up any number of any characters, which are followed on the right first by a space and then atleast 3 capital letters.

But I get an empty messge box when I run this through PMC.

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MsgBox, 0, , %clipboard%                                                       ---  I can see PMC has read the clipboard Ok
ex1 := RegExMatch(clipboard , ".*(?=\s[A-Z]{3,})" , varo1)        --- I must need to reformat my query because...
MsgBox, 0, , %varo1%                                                             --- No result. Empty Box.

Other basic searches work. So I feel that as I can otherwise get PMC to read the clipboard, run a search and store that result in %varo1%....

there must be something im missing re my regex code when trying to use this basic lookahead algo in PMC.

Again, it seems to work on regexr and Ive had a good look at the documentation on autohotkey....

Anyone here see / understand where im going wrong?

Kind regards everyone. Much Love.

[Pulover]

Does it work when you export the script to ahk or exe?

[jackblack2009]

Does it work when you export the script to ahk or exe?

Ahh. Yes.

and cheers chief. loving PMC




..and creating an exe also worked.

So whats going on here then? did i find a feature

Gonna have a look at the source for fun/practice but will have no idea whats going on. Ill be surprised if i can even find the code related to regex. ..and id wonder IF this behavior even had anything to do with that

thanks again dude

[Pulover]

There might be a bug, then. Maybe in the Eval function. You might as well open an issue on github.