extract string

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Jan 11 11:28:01 EST 2006


On 1/11/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 11, 2006, at 08:42, klussier at comcast.net wrote:
> > This poses an interesting problem. The "," is being used for two
> > purposes: a delimiter *AND* as a place holder.
> Now, for the Lazy, Perl regular expressions are a state machine of
> sorts.  I suspect you might be able to do the right thing with
> greedy/non-greedy matches.  Someone who lives and breathes regex might
> have a better handle on this.  It would take me two hours to get this
> one figured out.


  Hehe, it'd be one of those really, REALLY ugly Regular expressions that,
when you stare at it long enough, looks like ASCII art in order to make it
100%.  ;-)

  Thomas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20060111/9abf9d5d/attachment.html


More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list