On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:41:16 +0200 ik <ido...@gmail.com> wrote: > It looks for a date pattern like the follow > > 10/10/08 and 10/10/2008 with space and then some other chars as well. > > I think if it was with boundaries of begin and/or end (^ and $) it > would work even better. > > The () indicates groups. each group is the string extracted from the > pattern, and can be used (that's the /1/ and /2/ that he wrote). > > This entire thingy called regular expression or regex for short. > > Ido > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Marc Weustink <m...@dommelstein.net> > wrote: > > > Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > >> There seem to be a number of people currently making outrageous > >> suggestions about missing features or how FPC could best be > >> repackaged and promoted, so since it's the season of good will I > >> trust that folk will tolerate this one from me. > >> > >> There's been a recent thread in fpc-other on second languages, but > >> it appeared to focus more on what was a useful part of a > >> developer's skillset rather than what people miss from Pascal. > >> > >> What /I/ miss is Perl's pattern matching, and I miss it to the > >> extent that in some of my own scripting stuff I've implemented it > >> myself: > >> > >> IF cells[2, dateTime] = /(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/((\d\d)?\d\d)\s.*/i THEN > >> BEGIN > >> > > > > and now in plain english, what does it match ?
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