a regular expression problem

[lookon]

I want to use django to dispatch url.
The url is like /test/Google/6,and my patten is r'^/test/(?P<q>\b\W+
\b)/(?P<h>\d+)$'.
It works when the string is English(like Google), but fails when the
string is in foreign language.

Can anyone tell me the righ regular expression?

Thank you!

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Re: a regular expression problem

lookon a écrit :

I want to use django to dispatch url.
The url is like /test/Google/6,and my patten is r'^/test/(?P<q>\b\W+
\b)/(?P<h>\d+)$'.
It works when the string is English(like Google), but fails when the
string is in foreign language.

Care to give an exemple of url that fails ?

Anyway, if you want to match just *anything* in that path segment, you
can try:

r'^/test/(?P<q>.+?)/(?P<h>\d+)$'.

[Leefurong]

Re: a regular expression problem

I want to use django to dispatch url.

The url is like /test/Google/6,and my patten is r'^/test/(?P<q>\b\W+

\W should be \w, a typo? :)

\b)/(?P<h>\d+)$'.
It works when the string is English(like Google), but fails when the
string is in foreign language.

Try this:
r'(?u)^/test/(?P<q>\b\w+\b)/(?P<h>\d+)$'
if ?u doesn't work, try ?L.
I'm not sure which encoding a url uses.(locale or unicode? I guess
unicode)

>
Care to give an exemple of url that fails ?
>
Anyway, if you want to match just *anything* in that path segment, you
can try:
>
r'^/test/(?P<q>.+?)/(?P<h>\d+)$'.

I don't think he wants to match anything :)