Version extraction: non-contiguous match groups

[foolishgrunt]

Consider a case such as Collabora: the apk filename is collabora-office-mobile-24.04-snapshot-arm64-v8a-2024-10-07.apk.

Since this is a (semi-)weekly build of a LTS release, a sane version number would be something along the lines of [release number]-[build date], e.g. 24.04-2024-10-07. Both of these strings are contained within the filename, but non-contiguously.

It's my understanding that there is no native RegEx provision for capturing non-contiguous text in a single match group, but can anyone think of a way to work around this in Obtainium to produce the desired version number?

[DarkCrypt]

Version String Extraction ReGex: [0-9]+\.[0-9]+

[foolishgrunt]

That's correct, I'm looking to include just the version and the build date, not the intermediate string about architecture.

And this is relevant for even the stable repo, because it also contains multiple builds of the same release.

[DarkCrypt]

Ok, I did understand you the 2nd time. Unfortunately, I'm having to revert to my 2nd comment above.

@ImranR98
I find what foolishgrunt is talking about here very interesting. I'd like to hear your input about this.

[ImranR98]

Sure, makes sense. We could support multiple match groups. In the "match groups to use" field you'd be able to enter a comma separated list of groups - like 1,2 for the first and second groups (Obtainium would add a period between them).

[foolishgrunt]

That would work for my use case.

[DarkCrypt]

Sounds great to me.

[ImranR98]

Opened #1913

[ImranR98]

Just realized this was already implemented in #1235.
Regex: ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)-snapshot-arm64-v8a-([0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+)
Match groups: $1.$2

[foolishgrunt]

Confirmed it works, thanks!

[DwainZwerg]

What does this config look like (please share as a link)?

[foolishgrunt]

What does this config look like (please share as a link)?

Pulling from the stable repo:
087-11ef-a420-61cc893eff76.json

[DarkCrypt]

Awesome! Thanks for the info!

Config for arm64 following ImranR98's example: Collabora

Produces version as: 24.04.2024-10-20

*It's also possible to use other characters between $1$2.
E.g.) $1-$2 produces: 24.04-2024-10-20