You don't mention why split is not an option. I am guessing
because you aren't just trying to split a string on some
delimiter, you are trying to learn regexes, and this is
a problem you feel comfortable with. There is nothing wrong
with that, but realize that what pzbagel said was
your answer ... your values are stored in the array. What
you are trying to do - match some arbitrary numbers of items
and populate $1 through $N inside
the match operator just doesn't make sense to me. I mean,
that's what the g modifier is for ... match all
occurances, no matter how many you find.
You hint and Java and Python, but you don't specify what
language you are really trying to solve this problem in.
If i had to guess, i would say you are using PHP or some
Java library that modeled itself against Perl's regexes.
Can't help you with the Java stuff, but if it's PHP you
are using, then try
preg_match_all().
It is like
preg_match with Perl's
g match modifer, but it's usage is a bit tricky:
<?php
$mystr = 'foo,bar,moo,cow';
preg_match_all('/(\w+)\,?/',$mystr,$matches);
?>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($matches[1] as $match) { ?>
<li><?=$match?></li>
<?php } ?>
</ul>
If you are using Python, then you can use the exact same
regex with Python's
re.findall():
#!/usr/bin/python
from re import findall
mystr = 'foo,bar,moo,cow'
values = findall('(\w+)\,?',mystr)
for val in values: print val
Hope this helps, i feel kinda dirty now ... PHP
and Python at a Perl site! ;)
jeffa
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