<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
        {font-family:Calibri;
        panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
        panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
        {font-family:Monospaced;
        panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
        {margin:0cm;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:11.0pt;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:blue;
        text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        color:purple;
        text-decoration:underline;}
pre
        {mso-style-priority:99;
        mso-style-link:"HTML Vorformatiert Zchn";
        margin:0cm;
        margin-bottom:.0001pt;
        font-size:10.0pt;
        font-family:"Courier New";}
span.E-MailFormatvorlage17
        {mso-style-type:personal-compose;
        font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif";
        color:windowtext;
        font-weight:normal;
        font-style:normal;}
span.HTMLVorformatiertZchn
        {mso-style-name:"HTML Vorformatiert Zchn";
        mso-style-priority:99;
        mso-style-link:"HTML Vorformatiert";
        font-family:"Courier New";
        mso-fareast-language:DE-AT;}
.MsoChpDefault
        {mso-style-type:export-only;
        font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
        mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
        {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
        margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt;}
div.WordSection1
        {page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>I have a data file containing metadata and binary data. I successfully scanned the file with .net Regex class, now I want to scan it with SciLab, but ….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>The relevant part of  the file looks like:  #data# .. here comes binary data … #EOC#  .. here comes binary data …  #EOC# .. and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>My regex in .net notation looks like:  </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>#data#</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#4A55DB'>((</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>?</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#5C5C5C'><</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>data</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#5C5C5C'>></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#4A55DB'>(</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>?s</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#FFAA00'>:</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#5C5C5C'>.*</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>?</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#4A55DB'>))</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:black'>#EOC#</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#4A55DB'>)+<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:#4A55DB'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>Ok, in SciLab the notation is little different: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:rosybrown'>'/#data#((?P<data>(?s:.*?))#EOC#)+/'<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:rosybrown'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>This regex expression didn’t match at all. I start experimenting and it looks like that the regex engine stops at a new line character (0x0A) which i spart of  the binary data block. As far as I know (and that isn’t that far) the clause </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced","serif";color:rosybrown'>(?s:.*?)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'> means, take any character until you find #EOC# but as least as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>No interpretation on 0x0A ….<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>Any idea how I can parse my file and get the binary data blocks into variables, or at least get pointers to  the starting points, so I am able to read the binary data with some file read function?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>Thanks a lot for helping<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>With best regards<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'>Gerhard<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif";mso-fareast-language:DE-AT'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>