[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
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