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How I can extract words from strings using regular expressions?

Prathamesh More on November 24, 2020

I have searched on the internet but I don't get any solution. I just confused. I have this string ("type": "Person" AND ("specialFields.email": "...
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Mihail Malo • • Edited

That looks like tokenisation, except It's strange that the key-value pairs are one token.
I'd more expect a result like

[
  '(',
  '"type"',
  ':',
  '"Person"',
  'AND',
  '(',
  '"specialFields.email"',
  ':',
  '"prathameshmore@gmail"',
  'OR',
  '"specialFields.address"',
  ':',
  '"Jaysingpur"',
  ')',
  ')'
]
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However if the grammar is really simple you might just get away with parsing it in one pass to

{
  _t: "AND",
  members: [
    {_t: "EQ", k: "type", v: "Person"},
    {
      _t: "OR",
      members: [
        {_t: "EQ", k: "specialFields.email", v: "prathameshmore@gmail"},
        {_t: "EQ", k: "specialFields.address", v: "Jaysingpur"}
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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However, in any case, RegEx can only be used to parse small parts of this, if at all.
Especially, you must consider key and value strings that contain the characters [](),:, the keyords AND&OR, and escaped "\"" (or however else double quote character is escaped in your query format)

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Prathamesh More •

("\w+.?\w*":"\w+@?.?") This is working now.

How I can get the bracket and AND and `OR'?

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Prathamesh More •

I wanted to use Stack to create a mongoose filter.

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Mihail Malo •
  1. I updated my post, you were just too quick to reply :D
  2. What is "Stack"?
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Prathamesh More • • Edited

I am trying to create this output

{
 "$and": [
    { "type": "Nanoheal" },
    {
      "$or": [
        { "specialFields.address": "Jaysingpur" },
        { "specialFields.email": "prathameshmore@gmail.com" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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It's working when I am using a string like this

 let operands = query.split("'").filter(Boolean);

//Output

 [
  '(',
  '"type": "Nanoheal"',
  'AND',
  '(',
  '"specialFields.email": "prathameshmore@nanoheal"',
  'OR',
  '"specialFields.address": "Jaysingpur"',
  ')',
  ')'
]
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const query = `'('"type": "Nanoheal"'AND'('"specialFields.email": "prathameshmore@nanoheal"'OR'"specialFields.address": "Jaysingpur"')'')'`;
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I want to make the query simple from the user side.

("type": "Person" AND ("specialFields.email": "prathameshmore@gmail.com" OR "specialFields.address": "Jaysingpur"))

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Prathamesh More •

The stack is used to create this object

{
 "$and": [
    { "type": "Nanoheal" },
    {
      "$or": [
        { "specialFields.address": "Jaysingpur" },
        { "specialFields.email": "prathameshmore@gmail.com" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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stereobooster •

Use parser, for example pegjs.org/online

Expression
  = "(" _ head:(Expression / Pair) _ ")" {
      return head;
    } /
    "(" _ head:(Expression / Pair) _ operator:("AND" / "OR") _ tail: (Expression / Pair) _ ")" {
      return { [operator]: [head, tail]};
    }

Pair
  = head:String _ ":" _ tail:String {
      return [head, tail];
    }

String "string"
  = "\"" [^\"]+ "\"" { return text(); }

_ "whitespace"
  = [ \t\n\r]*
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