Re: Regex advice

Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> 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?

Aside from removing .* at the beginning and removing '|' from the 
character class the other parts should work as desired.



John
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