Re: regex for multiple capture within boundary

I want a single regex that grabs all the number characters between the spaces

Extreme regexing? I cannot resist such a question. This ought to do it:

@nums = $x =~ /(?:^\S*\s+|\G)[^\s\d]*(\d+)/g;

However, if it does not absolutely have to be a single regex, I suspect the maintainer will prefer one of ikegami's solutions. :-)

Update: I've been out-extremed! Not perhaps by the first of ikegami's latter solutions, which after all is straight-forward, and probably as maintainable as mine, but certainly by the second. It took me three attempts just to read it: My eyes glazed over twice!

... what's with the local *nums; though? Yet another update: Ah. Considerate of you. :-)

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Re^2: regex for multiple capture within boundary by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 14, 2006 at 22:10 UTC
I hope you're refering to one of these and not one of the following `;)` `local nums; our @nums; $x =~ / \s (?: [^\s\d] (\d+) (?{ push(@nums, $1) }) )* /x;` [download] or `local nums; our @nums; $x =~ / ^ (?> \S \s ) \S*? (?<!\d) ( (?> \d+ ) ) (?{ push(@nums, $1) }) (?!) /x;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: regex for multiple capture within boundary by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 14, 2006 at 23:58 UTC
... what's with the local nums; though?* I used package variables because regexps capture. Putting the regexp in a sub would only work once if I had used lexical variables instead of pacakge variables. `our @nums;` makes it so I can say `@nums` instead of `@main::nums` to refer to the package variable. `local *nums` works better than `local @nums;`. They both ensure that `@main::nums` has the same value when we're done as it did when we started. In other words, it makes sure we're not trampling over someone else's variables.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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