I have an array of regex expressions that I apply to text returned from
tesseract.
Each match that I get then gets stored for future processing. However,
I'm struggling with one regex.
The problem is that:
1) with brackets round the titles it returns two matches.
2) without brackets, it retu
Well, it seems that the first one is what you want, but you just need to
use $1 and ignore $2.
You do need parentheses in '(mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)' but if you do not
want for them to be captured in $2, you can use:
'(?:mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)'. For example:
print "match3='$1' '$2'\n" if
(
On 02/12/2020 13:56, Vlado Keselj wrote:
Well, it seems that the first one is what you want, but you just need to
use $1 and ignore $2.
You do need parentheses in '(mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)' but if you do not
want for them to be captured in $2, you can use:
'(?:mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir)'. For ex
In your original example:
print "match1='$1' '$2'\n" if ($T=~/^((mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir) .{5,}?)\n/smi);
print "match2='$1' '$2'\n" if ($T=~/^(mr|mrs|miss|dr|prof|sir .{5,}?)\n/smi);
the interior parentheses in example one terminates the alternation, so the last
string is ’sir’.
In example two
