Contents: Test different sources Parse a local page Parse from a localhost URL Parse from a fixed external URL Test different match specifications simple match expressions multi-line matches (endpat) context-sensitive matches anonymous sequences controlling the search space empty format spec missing match

Following is output from the WebSed processor.

Data for this test is on the page WebSedTestData

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Test different sources [edit section]

In the examples below, a different page (either external or internal) is parsed to find Tim's phone number.

Parse a local page [edit section]

Result parsing a single field from a local page:

The following lines should match:

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Tim's phone number is 555-6895

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Tim's phone number is 555-6895

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Parse from a localhost URL [edit section]

Result parsing a single field from a url (http://bird.org/tbw-files/UserTimTestWebsed.html)

The following lines should match:

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Tim's phone number is 123-4567

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Tim's phone number is 123-4567

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Parse from a fixed external URL [edit section]

Result parsing a single field from a url

• from page: http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/files/samplefile.txt

The following lines should match:

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The type of sample is: "text"

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The type of sample is: "text"

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Test different match specifications [edit section]

simple match expressions [edit section]

multi-line matches (endpat) [edit section]

The following sections should match:

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The lines inside the block are:
this is multi-line data; this is the second line of multi-line data

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The lines inside the block are:
this is multi-line data; this is the second line of multi-line data

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context-sensitive matches [edit section]

This section tests the use of precursors.

The following lines should match:

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The cat did eat a rat; place: late a night ; at a location best described as "upon a mat "

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The cat did eat a rat; place: late at night; at a location best described as "upon a mat"

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The following lines should match:

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The squirrel had !not found! !not found! at a location best described as "!not found!"

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The squirrel had !not found! !not found! at a location best described as "!not found!"

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anonymous sequences [edit section]

The following lines should match:

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I believe that the red bicycle might have been ruined in a crash .

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I believe that the red bicycle might have been ruined in a crash.

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controlling the search space [edit section]

empty format spec [edit section]

The following sections should match:

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• email: tim@bird.org
• phone: 555-6895

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• email: tim@bird.org
• phone: 555-6895

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missing match [edit section]

This tests when a match is missing from the source data

The following lines should match:

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The missing data is: "!not found!"

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The missing data is: "!not found!"

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