[Chicago-talk] REGEX question II
Richard Solberg
flateyjarbok at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 17 19:57:01 CDT 2004
Thanks Jim & Steve. Now I know how to roll my own
character set for searches. It worked in my
application.
Richard
--- Jim Thomason <jthomasoniii at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Piece of cake. Put it in a character set.
>
> [\w\s/.]+
>
> (being careful to escape that / if you're inside a
> search-n-replace that uses / as its delimiters).
>
> In short, brackets denote character sets and match
> any
> character contained within them.
>
> [a] matches a.
> [ab] matches a or b.
> [a\W] matches any character that is either a or a
> non-word.
> [a-z] matches a through z.
>
> perldoc perlre for tons more info. I also strongly
> recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" from
> O'reilly.
>
> -Jim.....
>
> --- Richard Solberg <flateyjarbok at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I read that
> > \w+ will match any alpha numberics plus the "_".
> >
> > Is there any way to get it or some other notation
> to
> > match all of \w+ plus \s+ plus "/" plus "." , in
> any
> > order or combination?
>
>
>
>
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