Re: Best regex for this, getting software version numbers

2007-10-25 Thread Ben Doom
Without testingL

^.*?($|\d+\.\d+)

Which is, basically, beginning of string, shortest possible string, (end 
of string or digits dot digits).

--Ben Doom

Andy Matthews wrote:
 I have these strings:
  
 Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Firefox 2.0)
  
 Internet Explorer 7.0 (Internet Explorer 7.0)
  
 Googlebot 2.1 (Googlebot 2.1)
  
 Yahoo! Slurp (Yahoo! Slurp)
  
 etc.
  
 I'd like to grab everything up to a second period (if it exists). What I
 want is in parens next to each string.
  
 Anyone have any ideas?
  
 
  
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RE: Best regex for this, getting software version numbers

2007-10-25 Thread Andy Matthews
I came up with this:

([a-zA-Z0-9 !]+).?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)

Is there a better way to do this? 

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From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:27 PM
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Subject: Best regex for this, getting software version numbers

I have these strings:
 
Firefox 2.0.0.8 (Firefox 2.0)
 
Internet Explorer 7.0 (Internet Explorer 7.0)
 
Googlebot 2.1 (Googlebot 2.1)
 
Yahoo! Slurp (Yahoo! Slurp)
 
etc.
 
I'd like to grab everything up to a second period (if it exists). What I
want is in parens next to each string.
 
Anyone have any ideas?
 

 
Andy Matthews
Senior ColdFusion Developer

Office:  877.707.5467 x747
Direct:  615.627.9747
Fax:  615.467.6249
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.dealerskins.com http://www.dealerskins.com/ 
 




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