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3d party string matching functionality
Does anyone know where I can find a good set of VB friendly string matching functions like in awk/Perl. It can be freeware/shareware or 3d party product with a full implementation of regular expressions.
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Those product are oriented on delimeted file processing. What I'm looking for is a set of function for string pattern matching like gsub(regexp, repl, string), match(string, regexp), split(string, array, regexp). (The Like operator does not provide this functionality) Sorry that I didn't make it clear.
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This is exactly what I was looking for in terms of functionality so I'm accepting your answer. However it is distributed as a source code and maybe because of that have a ridiculous (in my opinion) price of $119 for a single license. I will post my question again with a price limitation included.
If this includes commercial products VideoSoft VS-OCX includes an awk component called vsAwk
(begin quote)
No more slow code to parse strings and read files! Let the vsAwk string parser control slice and dice your strings automatically. It even includes an expression evaluator that supports variables.
(end quote)
Videosoft Home Page - www.videosoft.com
This has been reviewed in several magazines and has been said to be good.
2. For a shareware alternative (untested by me)
Awk Tool by DataMasta Limited
http://www.wave.co.nz/pages/datamasta/download.htm
Brief review by ZD Net at
http://www6.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?link=1&fcode=000N9C