[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok. well i don't have formal reg exp training,. i've used an oreilly pres
book to teach myself and have been told by others that i seem really good
with them. considering what i've seen here, Brian Raven and Bill Luebkert
are both much better and also explain VERY well.
dZ-
DZ-Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/12/2005 01:50:54 PM:
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 08:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > DZ-
> >
> > reg exp is greedy by default, but perl has a modifier to stop that.
>
> Thanks, I was aware of that.
ok, i just wanted to be sure.
>
> > haven't tested to pr
On Dec 12, 2005, at 07:51, Brian Raven wrote:
First, could you modify your posting style. It is impossible to
determine from the above who said what.
Sorry, I just noticed this. I was having problems posting from my mail
client and I copy+pasted the source of the message into an SMTP telnet
Reposting with quotes include (sorry!). See below.
On Dec 12, 2005, at 04:40, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
DZ-Jay wrote:
But I did specify the rules:
1. Split on a specified delimiter (for the moment I'm aiming for
[,;]),
but ideally I would like it to be variable.
2. As opposed to CSV where quot
On Dec 12, 2005, at 08:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DZ-
reg exp is greedy by default, but perl has a modifier to stop that.
Thanks, I was aware of that.
haven't tested to prove that works correctly, but in theory it should.
? immediately after * or + will make it non-greedy
I forgot to m
In a message dated 12/12/2005 6:38:31 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I agree, and I am also self-taught and certainly not an expert
at> regexps. I would like to get a single regexp, if possible, as a
matter
if by ``single regexp'' you mean a one-liner, i would str
DZ-
reg exp is greedy by default, but perl has a modifier to stop that.
where .* is greedy, .*? is not
so
given: josh made this regexp example to show how josh can use a modifier
and stop it from going past josh
and: (.*)josh
modify to (.*?)josh
and now you get nothing. josh is at the begi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote:
> On Dec 12, 2005, at 04:40, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
>
> DZ-Jay wrote:
>
> But I did specify the rules:
> 1. Split on a specified delimiter (for the moment I'm aiming for
> [,;]), but ideally I would like it to be variable.
> 2. As opposed to CSV where quoted strings en
On Dec 12, 2005, at 04:40, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
DZ-Jay wrote:
But I did specify the rules:
1. Split on a specified delimiter (for the moment I'm aiming for [,;]),
but ideally I would like it to be variable.
2. As opposed to CSV where quoted strings encompass the entire field,
quoted substrings
DZ-Jay wrote:
> But I did specify the rules:
> 1. Split on a specified delimiter (for the moment I'm aiming for [,;]),
> but ideally I would like it to be variable.
> 2. As opposed to CSV where quoted strings encompass the entire field,
> quoted substrings can exist within the field.
> 3. The qu
On Dec 11, 2005, at 09:06, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
DZ-Jay wrote:
Pretty ingenious, albeit a bit of cheating, uh? :)
but if all else fails, I'll probably go with that, thanks!
I still wonder if there is a single regexp that could do what I want,
and if so, I'd like to learn about it. I'm just
DZ-Jay wrote:
> Pretty ingenious, albeit a bit of cheating, uh? :)
> but if all else fails, I'll probably go with that, thanks!
>
> I still wonder if there is a single regexp that could do what I want,
> and if so, I'd like to learn about it. I'm just not very familiar with
> backtracking and
On Dec 10, 2005, at 22:54, $Bill Luebkert wrote:
$_ = q{"LastName, First Name" , "Name" , ;
FirstName LastName, address; "First \"nick\" Last" address};
s/\\"/\003/g; # handle embedded \"
s/"([^"]+)"/\001$1\002/g;# handle open/close
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello:
> I'm trying to build a routine to split a string in fields by a
> specified delimiter. The string format is pretty close to CSV, except that
> quoted substrings can appear within an unquoted string, and escaped quotes
> can exist within quoted strings,
In a message dated 12/10/2005 7:04:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello:> I'm trying to build a routine
to split a string in fields by a specified delimiter.The string format is
pretty close to CSV, except that quoted substrings can appear within an>
unquot
Hello:
I'm trying to build a routine to split a string in fields by a
specified delimiter. The string format is pretty close to CSV, except that
quoted substrings can appear within an unquoted string, and escaped quotes can
exist within quoted strings, and the delimiter might exist with
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