Re: regular expression help

To match "X,X,X", the pattern will look something like /X(?:,X)*/. Since your "X" is rather long, you might want to consider splitting on commas first, then parsing each item in the list.

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Re^2: regular expression help by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 03, 2009 at 20:00 UTC
...consider splitting... Or define your X subpattern as a separate regex, then build the pattern with it: `my $subpat = qr/(?:<\\d+>)?([^<]+)<(\d+):(\d+)>/; $str =~/$subpat(?:,$subpat)/;` [download] However, the capturing parentheses are not going to capture everything this way. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: regular expression help by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 03, 2009 at 20:30 UTC
However, the capturing parentheses are not going to capture everything this way. That's why I didn't recommend it. Perl's match operator can match extremely complex expressions (the initial purpose of regular expressions) and it can extract data from strings, but it's not so good at doing both at once. (At least not before 5.10. 5.10 added a bunch of tools that might help.)	[reply]
Re^3: regular expression help by pip9ball (Acolyte) on Jun 03, 2009 at 22:36 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion...I will try doing something like this!	[reply]


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