A Friday Regex Head Scratcher
"Jon Earle" <[email protected]>
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Hey folks,
Probably simple, but the answer is eluding me at the moment. I have a block
of text that contains:
some text PR 1234 more text
and I want to convert the number to a link to the issue in the bug reporting
database. This is no problem, there is a regex to do just that:
(\b(PR|SCR)[:s#]?\s?) # PR or SCR followed by :|s|#|whitespace
(\s[a-z0-9-]+\/)? # a category name & a slash (optional)
([0-9]+) # the PR number
and that works perfectly. Now, suppose that the block of text contains:
some text PR 1234, 5678 ,2345 more text
How would I need to adjust the regex to account for the unknown number of
additional comma-number sequences so that they can each be htmlified?
I need to inject this into both perl and python code.
Thanks for any thoughts!
Jon
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