There is a program called a regular expression coach http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ which is a big help with difficult Expressions.
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 7:34 PM To: Praedor Atrebates; Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO; Perl Beginner Subject: RE: ???UNSURE??? RE: need help with regular expression When you say "a series ... 3 to 5 characters in length", do you mean LLL,III,VVV,FFF,YYY Or LIV,FLY,YYL,FFI Because you could try something like /[KRH][LIVFY]{3,5}[KRH]/ (not tested), but something like. -----Original Message----- From: Praedor Atrebates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:30 PM To: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO; Perl Beginner Subject: Re: ???UNSURE??? RE: need help with regular expression [Tim Johnson] <snip> Originally I had thought to assign L, I, V, F, Y, and A to another variable, called $hydrophobe or some such and simply see about looking for a series of hydrophobes between K, R, or Hs between 3 to 5 characters in length but could [Tim Johnson] <snip> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
