At first glance, I thought he needed to escape the '.' the way you
have it, but he doesn't since the [^.] matches everything that isn't a
period, so the wildcard '.' has to match only a real period, so [^.]+.?
[^.]+ works. Still, I think \. makes it clearer.
Danny
On Oct 26, 8:34 am, Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shouldn't that be: [^.]+\.[^.]+ ?
> He didn't say he want to capture the first part, and '.?' will match
> something else.
>
> Just in case you are interested, you can achieve the same using:
> s.substring( 0, s.indexOf( '.' ,s.indexOf('.')+1 ));
>
> Ariel Flesler
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