On May 19, 2004, at 7:21 PM, meb wrote:
My regex looks something like this:
(Save 1st 20 words):
/^(\w|\W){20}/g
^ matches only at the beginning of the string while the /g modifier tries to create a global search matching all occurrences. Matching all of what can only be in one place is pointless.
You expression matches 20 word or non-word CHARACTERS, not WORDS. Try something like:
s/^((?:\w+\W*?){20}).+$/$1.../Hope that helps.
James
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