Re: Newbie help with regular expression

Hi I think I would use something like
perl5.split(list, "(group ?= ?.*)", yourString);
By parenthesizing the regexp, the found result also appears in the list,
then you can just iterate over this list. And use the odd elements as key
for a hash for instance and the even elements in the list as the
corresponding value.But having a configuration file like this, it might be faster and easier
to read it line by line, parse the lines sequentially and route the output
to wherever you want it to go.Further more, It's quite normal these days to use xml for configuration
files.jeroen.
> Hi, I'm new to regular expression and would like some help/thoughts
> with  the following questions.
> I have a configuration file which looks a bit like this:
>
> group = core
> ..............
> .............
> .............
> ...............
>
> group = smsbox
> ............................
> ............................
> ...........................
> ...........................
>
> My first question is :
> How do I correctly write a regular expression that will let me say give
>
> me the contents of the group = core ?
> I tried this \s*group\s*=\s*core\s*([^>]*)\s*group\s*=\s*smsbox\s* but
> that isn't really working as it would depend on group = smsbox being
> there. Is there
> a way around this ?
>
> My second question is this:
>  How can I extract  multiple identical groups  ( for example there are
> many 'group = smsbox' ) ? I would like to extract all the groups that
> match.
>
> My apologies if  my questions aren't clear to anyone, I will clarify if
>  I need to. Thank you.
>
>
>
>
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