PowerShell REGEX
I need a REGEX that will:
match [one of "CREATE". "Create" or "create"] followed by [one or more spaces], followed by ["PROCEDURE", "Procedure", "procedure", "PROC", "Proc" or "proc"] (note: " and [] are NOT part of the string).
I am wanting to use this in a PowerShell -replace operator, and need assistance with building the regex string, and also have a question.
I am sure this is very easy, but everything I've tried puts the matching of one or more spaces with the last instance of "create" and not after the 'series" of [one of "CREATE", "Create" or "create"]
The source string I want to consider as a match can be any of:
"create procedure ...", "create proc ...", "CREATE procedure " (several spaces between CREATE and procedure), "CREATE PROC ...", etc.
I want to replace any occurance of a match with "ALTER PROCEDURE ". There will ALWAYS be a space after "PROC" or "PROCEDURE". I don't want to run the risk of replacing "CREATE PROCEDURE" with "ALTER PROCEDUREEDURE" (i.e. finding PROC in PROCEDURE and replacing the "CREATE PROC" portion of the full string.)
My question is: does regex have a precedence, in that it will try from left to right and stop at the first match it finds, such that, if I list PROCEDURE before PROC, it will apply the replace to the full match? Hope that makes sense.
match [one of "CREATE". "Create" or "create"] followed by [one or more spaces], followed by ["PROCEDURE", "Procedure", "procedure", "PROC", "Proc" or "proc"] (note: " and [] are NOT part of the string).
I am wanting to use this in a PowerShell -replace operator, and need assistance with building the regex string, and also have a question.
I am sure this is very easy, but everything I've tried puts the matching of one or more spaces with the last instance of "create" and not after the 'series" of [one of "CREATE", "Create" or "create"]
The source string I want to consider as a match can be any of:
"create procedure ...", "create proc ...", "CREATE procedure " (several spaces between CREATE and procedure), "CREATE PROC ...", etc.
I want to replace any occurance of a match with "ALTER PROCEDURE ". There will ALWAYS be a space after "PROC" or "PROCEDURE". I don't want to run the risk of replacing "CREATE PROCEDURE" with "ALTER PROCEDUREEDURE" (i.e. finding PROC in PROCEDURE and replacing the "CREATE PROC" portion of the full string.)
My question is: does regex have a precedence, in that it will try from left to right and stop at the first match it finds, such that, if I list PROCEDURE before PROC, it will apply the replace to the full match? Hope that makes sense.
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Myself I'd like to learn a bit of SQL, C++ (have dabbled just a bit), and C#. Luckily it only took me a little time to pick up the basics of regex. I found http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html to be a great resource.
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