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darioit
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Forfiles and escape char

#1 Post by darioit » 16 Sep 2020 04:16

Hello,
this string works fine in dos shell

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curl --request POST "https://somesite/access_token" --user user:pass | grep -o -P -e "(?<=\"access_token\":\").+?(?=\")"
but If I try this:

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for /f %%a in ('curl --request POST "https://somesite/access_token" --user user:pass ^| grep -o -P -e "(?<=\"access_token\":\").+?(?=\")"') do set "TOKEN=%%a"
I got this error
.+?(? was unexpected at this time.

any idea? Thanks

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Re: Forfiles and escape char

#2 Post by aGerman » 16 Sep 2020 06:37

If I count the quotes then it seems that the closing parenthesis right before the point is neither escaped nor quoted. I suspect it is treated as to be closing the FOR clause. Try to escape it with a caret. Probably the equal sign, too.
Something like that for the regex pattern ...

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"(?<=\"access_token\":\"^).+?(?^=\")"
Steffen

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Re: Forfiles and escape char

#3 Post by darioit » 16 Sep 2020 22:37

Thank you Steffen, always the best!

I try only 1 caret before parentesis, but not before equal

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