RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
1:09 To: Wagner-David Cc: 'Beginners' Subject: RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string On Feb 9, Wagner-David said: > The system I am working on has setup for named processes as >$. What I am doing is converting a number of scripts to Perl and >trying to m

RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, Wagner-David said: > The system I am working on has setup for named processes as >$. What I am doing is converting a number of scripts to Perl and >trying to make it easier to do. > > The format is as stated and I have done a chomp on the line. That's why your regex fai

RE: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
d a \$ in front of (\w+), but otherwise I get the above. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 18:30 To: Wagner-David Cc: 'Beginners' Subject: Re: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

Re: Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Feb 9, Wagner-David said: > $ description > $ description [,;] >$ description nnn,nnn > $ description [,;]nnn,nnn > $ description nnn,nnn[,;]nnn,nnn > > /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)\s+([,;\s]{0,}(\d{1,3}\s*,{1}\s*\d{0,3}))*/gi What exactly are you trying to extract? I thi

Trouble w/ regex when no data at end of string

2002-02-09 Thread Wagner-David
I have a field which can be setup like: $ description $ description [,;] $ description nnn,nnn $ description [,;]nnn,nnn $ description nnn,nnn[,;]nnn,nnn I am trying to use this format: /^\s*\$(\w+)\s+(.+)