On Jul 11, Gunnar Hjalmarsson said: >Jerry Preston wrote: >> I am trying to setup a single regex to breakdown the following lines: >> >> Jerry 2.7 4 4.5 mon >> Mark -14 -10.75 -10 new >> >> /(\w+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(-?\d+.\d+)\s+(\w+)/; > >You are not showing us a complete program that generates some other >output than the output you were expecting.
But we can see that his text does NOT match his regex. >- Not all numbers at those lines include digits before and after a >decimal point. > >- The '.' character has a special meaning when used in a regex outside >a character class, and should therefore be escaped. > >This code: > > (-?\d+(?:\.\d+)?) > >would match any of those numbers. I tend to write that as /(-?\d+\.?\d*)/, but be aware that this doesn't match numbers like .52 or .9, because they don't have digits BEFORE the decimal point. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
