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Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ?

by bobione (Pilgrim)
on Jul 06, 2001 at 23:42 UTC ( [id://94577]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

bobione has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, Kings of Regular Expression.
I have got an horrible RE problem (for me :)

I'd like to match a variable witch could be both value of $_ and return a value of the mail or an empty value.

$_ = '<A class=Member href="mailto:pluton_pluton@yahoo.fr">'; $_ = '<A class=Title>'; if (/^.*(?:mailto:)([^>]*)?"?>.*$/) {print "MATCH - ($1)";} else {print "DONT MATCH";}

This doesn't match "Mail-Less" case, and prefere keep the last double-quote (") because there's a (?).

I know it's a real small question, but that make me crazy !!
Thanks for your help.

BobiOne KenoBi ;)

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Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ?
by epoptai (Curate) on Jul 06, 2001 at 23:52 UTC

      Nice regex but you don't need the trailing >. It adds nothing and will cause something that like mailto:foo@bar.com"  > to fail. Either drop it or allow for 0 or more spaces with a \s*

      (/href="mailto:([^"]*)">/     # may fail
      (/href="mailto:([^"]*)"\s*>/  # allows legal spaces
      (/href="mailto:([^"]*)"/      # best option, just match
                                    # what we want
      

      cheers

      tachyon

      s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

        True. In order to prevent legal whitespace breaking the match there's still some work left undone around the = sign:
        /href\s*=\s*"mailto:([^"]*)"/
        Of course this will still fail by only making a partial match if the email value has a double-quote (unlikely).

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        All right guyz, but you forgot the second statement.
        This regex need to match :

        $_ = '<A class=Title>';

        Your RE match only if there's an "href".

        BobiOne KenoBi ;)

Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ?
by I0 (Priest) on Jul 08, 2001 at 10:37 UTC
    What do you want to happen in the "Mail-Less" case?
Re: Regex probleme, how memorize (match)? with question mark ?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2017 at 16:15 UTC
    (?: ) means, do not memorize!!!

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