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Re: List-to-Range generation

by chipmunk (Parson)
on Jun 12, 2001 at 02:55 UTC ( [id://87672]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to List-to-Range generation

Woops, it also converts (11,2,3) to "11-3" and (1,2,30) to "1-30". :)

Here's one way to fix it:

sub num2range { local $_ = join ',' => @_; s/(?<!\d)(\d+)(?:,((??{$++1}))(?!\d))+/$1-$+/g; return $_; }
The negative look-behind at the beginning and the negative look-ahead near the end prevent the regex from matching only part of a number, like the second 1 in 11 or the 3 in 30.

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Re: Re: List-to-Range generation
by japhy (Canon) on Jun 12, 2001 at 04:06 UTC
    D'oh. Thanks. Believe it or not, I use that look-behind and look-ahead method in another regex, to find a number in a string less than a given number.

    japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker
Re^2: List-to-Range generation
by rmocster (Novice) on Jul 21, 2016 at 21:52 UTC
    Thanks for the code. Is there a mod to the code to convert an array with padded numbers. I like to convert (0001,0002,0003,011,012,013,015) to "0001-0003,011-013,015". Thanks a lot.

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