Re: please help with my regular expression

Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg-gM/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.nedit.user
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 18:15, John Ferrier <john_j_ferrier-/[email protected]> wrote:
> The following regular expression used in fortan language to match numerical constant
>
>         <[0-9]+(\.[0-9]*)?([DEde][-+]?[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+([DEde][-+]?[0-9]*)?>
You should not use <> as 'delimiters', because that would not work
with a '.' inside. Try this:

    (?<!\Y)[0-9]+(\.[0-9]*)?([DEde][-+]?[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+([DEde][-+]?[0-9]*)?(?!\Y)

Bert
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