Re: Regex advice

> The \w character class matches any "word" character where "word" is 
> defined as any alphabetic character or any numerical digit or the '_' 
> character.  The '|' which is used for alternation outside of a character 
> class just matches a literal '|' character inside a character class. The 
> \s character class matches any whitespace character.

Ok, it makes sense now that I know that the '|' is literal in the 
context that I had it.

>> This is more about receiving feedback and not about an answer, so as I 
>> go find out why things work as they have been described, would you 
>> project the statement as if you had written it yourself, just for 
>> comparison sake?
> 
> I don't think I understand your last question.

What I mean is, if you were to use a regex as opposed to using split(), 
how would you have written:

if (/.*simscan~\[\d+\]~([\w|\s]+).*?~(\d+\.\d+)s~.*?~(.*?)~(.*?)~(.*)/) {

...to do the task I originally requested help with?

Steve