regex help *solved* I was crazy

[Cogman]

I don't know why, but regular expressions just confuse me.

Anyways, here is what I need. I have to check a string that needs to contain two items. It will look something like this

"Blah: da da da wh FAIL"
or
"Blah: da SUCCESS wh fa"

I need to see if the string contains both Blah and FAIL or SUCCESS. The thing is, the why I'm getting these strings is in such a fashon that I could have multiple fails, successes, and blahs (I'm getting several lines like the above, think of reading something from dmsg in linux).

I've tried this, but it fails
/Blah:.*FAIL/

These are perl regular expressions by the way.

 

[Ka0t1x]

/Blah:(.*)FAIL/

Not sure what the difference between perl and other forms of regex.. but... That's how I see it.. (missing paren, for any char repeating)

 

[Cogman]

/Blah:(.*)FAIL/

Not sure what the difference between perl and other forms of regex.. but... That's how I see it.. (missing paren, for any char repeating)

[edit]Oh wow, I'm an idiot! lol. So, here is what I was doing wrong. I had while (!statement || !statement || !statement) I wanted while (!statement && !statement && !statement)[/edit]

 

[iCyborg]

I wanted while (!statement && !statement && !statement)[/edit]

Which is equal to !(statement || statement || statement)

 

[tatteredpotato]

Which is equal to !(statement || statement || statement)

De Morgan was a pimp

 

[Cogman]

Which is equal to !(statement || statement || statement)

quiet you, I'm just happy I figured it out eventually.

Its amazing how you can write 1000s of lines of code with standard logic and yet all the sudden your brain freezes and you swap ors and ands.