Metrohm tiamo 2.3 Patch 1 (process analysis) User Manual
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Regular Expressions can be entered. You can use these exactly defined
search patterns to interpret the received character strings and save con-
tents from this strings in a method variable. Regular Expressions are widely
used in computer science (operating systems UNIX or LINUX, script lan-
guages PERL, etc.) and are standardized to a great extent. tiamo uses
Extended Regular Expressions in accordance with Java to their full
extent (for details, see e.g.
).
Input
100 characters
Examples for Regular Expressions:
Expression
Significance
Example
[abc]
OR function for single char-
acters
receive a or b or c
[a-z0-9]
one character in the speci-
fied range
m or 5
(hallo)
substring
string contains hallo
^hallo
start of line
hallo is at start of line
hallo$
end of line
hallo is at end of line
.
any single character
a or 4 or - or …
\.
point
.
\d
one digit
3
\d+
several digits
324567
\d{4}
four digits
3143
\D
not one digit
A or ! or …
\w
a digit or a letter
a or 3
\W
neither digit nor letter
! or .
.*
any character string
abcd or 41 or -$=$ or …
Any combination of regular expressions is possible.
Note
Open and close brackets must be set in the field Comparison in any
case in order to save the received data in a variable. Therefore, to save
a complete character string in a variable, the expression (.*) must be
entered in the field Comparison.