--- "Keith C. Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The next character after \d+ isn't necessarily a
> nondigit. It
> depends on what else is in the regex and what's in
> the string.
> For example /\d+.$/ and /\d+\D$/ don't match the
> same strings.
> The first one matches "234" (with '\d+' matchin
Carl Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Additionally, I believe that the sprintf format should be
> "%03d".
Either "%.3d" or "%03d" will work. Some people prefer the .
to the 0 because it's standard C as well as Perl and because
the leading 0 can imply octal rather than decimal. You can
read
Jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But if you match all digits (\d+) then you are
> guaranteed that the next character (if any) is a
> non-digit. So if another character is required for
> the regex (say, you want to match "234foo" but not
> "234") then you could use a . and it wouldn't hurt th
I guess I should have asked Scott the following
question.
What's up with this regex? Particulary this part (at
the end): (\d+)\D.+$
If I'm not mistaken, this piece says match all digits
and capture them into $1. Match one non-digit, then
anything until the end of the string. The all digits
thi
Ah yeah ... I didn't look at the code enough ...
Sometimes I think way too fast ...
> -Original Message-
> From: $Bill Luebkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:30 PM
> To: Troy Sniff
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: sprint
Jeffrey wrote:
> --- "Rubinow, Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > You're focussing on the wrong problem. Why suck up
> > all five digits in your
> > regex, if you only want the first three?
> >
> > $str =~ /^\d+\_(\d{1,3})\d*?\D.+$/;
>
> So just for my clarification, is there an advantage to
>
uot;\n";
> }
> __DATA__
> 12345
> 1
> ^--Script ends here
>
> Output:
> 123
> 001
>
> Wags ;}
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Purcell, Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 13:09
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTE
Troy Sniff wrote:
> Try:
>
> $tmp = sprintf("%03d", $tmp);
I think you didn't test that. :)
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