/^\w(?:[\w\s]*\w)?$/ works well for multiple words, but how do I check a date that is in the format 01/22/03
I think that it is hanging up on the / Thanks for everyone's help. Sander -----Original Message----- From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:09 PM To: Rob Dixon; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Quick regex prob > Dan Muey wrote: > > Hiya, I'm having a brain melt right now : > > > > I do this to match one word only. > > m/^(\w+)$/) > > That matches an entire line which is just a string of 'word' > characters ( A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and underscore ). > > > What regex do I need to match multiple , unkown ammounts of words? > > Will this do it? Or is there a better way? m/^\w[\w*|\s*]\w$/ > > Well, it doesn't seem a very interesting thing to want to do, > but I think you mean: > > /^\w[\w\s]*\w$/ yup > > which matches an entire line consisting of word characters or > whitespace, with no leading or trailing whitespace. Is that > what you wanted? > > One restriction - the least thing it'll match is two word > characters. If you want a single-character line to match do this: > > /^\w(?:[\w\s]*\w)?$/ cool > > which still won't match an empty line. Do you need that too? I don't think so but if I did all I would need to is : /(^$)|(^\w(?:[\w\s]*\w)?$)/ Right? Thanks again Rob , I'm getting farther and farther from that genius award! > > Cheers, > > Rob > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
