Hey monks
What sort of Regex would match a line of this type

--,2.000000e+0,6.460000e+0,--,--,--

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The commas are used as seperators. This is a result from a SQL statement. I want to find all results with the first and last three columns empty. The results will always have 6 columns. The second and third column will always take the same form i.e. 1.920000e+2

--,--,--,--,1.920000e+2,1.017000e+1
--,--,--,--,2.560000e+2,1.007000e+1
--,2.000000e+0,6.500000e+0,--,--,--
--,2.000000e+0,6.480000e+0,--,--,--

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I need a regex that will match the last two but not the first two.

j o h n i r l .

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In reply to Matching Stuff with Regex by johnirl

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