Get MIDI event with Regex

Questions & Suggestions
1

Hi there,

I'm trying to make a macro that will read whatever key I press on my MIDI keyboard and paste the note number in Excel or Numbers. There is no action like "get MIDI event," but there is a MIDI trigger for "This MIDI: packet". The manual says that I can use RegEx to narrow down what kind of event I want. Thing is, I've tried matching the inputted notes to any character or any string of characters (like * or ......) but it won't recognize any of my RegExes, only specific MIDI packets.

How do I actually use RegEx like the manual says in order to get any MIDI note from my keyboard?

Thanks!

2

What were the regex patterns that you tried and couldn't get to work ? "*" isn't a valid regular expression by itself, and "......" will match any 6 characters.

Is your issue a problem with the nature of regular expressions themselves, or that your patterns—for some other reason—are failing to do what you believe they should be doing ?

3

I figured it out. I needed the parentheses: (.*)

4

You needed the period. As I said, "*" isn’t a valid regular expression by itself, but ".*" is—it matches any character, any number of times.

Well done for getting it to work.