IT 117: Intermediate Scripting

IT 117: Intermediate to Scripting
Class 11 Exercise

Script for this exercise

Open a text editor
You can use the editor built into IDLE or use a program like Sublime.
Copy the text below into the file

Save the file as ex11.py
Run this script in IDLE
Open the script file in IDLE. Under the Run menu, select Run Module.

You should see

Regular expression: man Does NOT match A man, a plan, a canal. Panama
Regular expression: .*man Matches: A man, a plan, a canal. Panama
Regular expression: th.n Matches: than
Regular expression: th.n Matches: then
Regular expression: th.n Matches: thing
Regular expression: be+ Matches: behind
Regular expression: be+ Matches: bee
Regular expression: th? Matches: theme
Regular expression: th? Matches: tan
Regular expression: \d Does NOT match than
Regular expression: \d Matches: 123
Regular expression: \D Matches: than
Regular expression: \D Does NOT match 123
Regular expression: \w Matches: than
Regular expression: \w Matches: 123
Regular expression: \W Does NOT match than
Regular expression: \W Does NOT match 123

Unix setup

Log in to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will be in your home directory.
Go to your it117 directory
```
cd it117
```
Go to your ex directory
```
cd ex
```
Create a directory for this exercise
```
mkdir  ex11
```
Check that the directory was created
```
ls
```

Copy the file to Unix

Open FileZilla and connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
You will have to connect using your Unix username and password.
Copy the file to the to it117/ex/ex11

Testing the script on Unix

Connect to users3.cs.umb.edu
Use an ssh client.
Go to the directory for this exercise
```
cd  it117/ex/ex11
```
Run this script
```
python3 ex11.py
```

You should see

Regular expression: man Does NOT match A man, a plan, a canal. Panama
Regular expression: .*man Matches: A man, a plan, a canal. Panama
Regular expression: th.n Matches: than
Regular expression: th.n Matches: then
Regular expression: th.n Matches: thing
Regular expression: be+ Matches: behind
Regular expression: be+ Matches: bee
Regular expression: th? Matches: theme
Regular expression: th? Matches: tan
Regular expression: \d Does NOT match than
Regular expression: \d Matches: 123
Regular expression: \D Matches: than
Regular expression: \D Does NOT match 123
Regular expression: \w Matches: than
Regular expression: \w Matches: 123
Regular expression: \W Does NOT match than
Regular expression: \W Does NOT match 123

Running my test script on your script

If you want to run my text script on your Class Exercise script do the following
Run ex11.sh on your script
```
~ghoffman/it117_test/ex11.sh
```
The script will prompt you for your Unix username.