I thought I was improving at expressions but this one has me stumped:
I have text interspersed with numbers. The text can be anything, including
all types of punctuation marks.
Well let me give an example:
The Text has numbers in it apparently-1.0 at random but 12 actually not...
$% ---- 12.3 0.9 .333 33 and -33.9000009 I need to extract
u&t(y2335.09u see
all the legiti5.33mate integers and floating point numbers and separate them
with CRs. All text and nun-numeric data should be chucked. it needs to
look for negative numbers but 2-1 and 4-66.7 are "2 1 4 66.7". That is
- is a delimiter unless there's a space in front in which case the number is
negative.
The output for the text above should be:
-1.0
12
12.3
0.9
.333
33
-33.9000009
2335.09
5.33
2
1
4
66.7
2
1
2
66.7
Any help on the above would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks,
Gregg R. Allen
EMC 2
Layered Product Engineering
62 TW Alexander Dr
Research Triangle Park, NC. 27709
Phone: 919.248.5859
Blessed are they who expect nothing,
for they shall not be disappointed.
F. Nietzsche
