Hi!

just for fun, I played around with this a little.

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {
        print if m/^([+-]?\d*\.\d*)\s+([+-]?\d*.\d*)$/;
        print "$1 ~ ", int $1, "\n$2 ~ ", int $2, "\n";
        print "$_\n" for (int $1 .. int $2);
        }

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Putting the regex between ^$ makes input like .1 2foo illegal (and would have fixed your regexp, too, BTW). [+-]? allows to have a positive, negative or no sign. So this now takes all of 1 .1 1. 1.1 . all prefixed with + or - or nothing. Note that . is fine -- int converts it to 0.

int $1 .. int $2 make it work with input like 0.3 4 (where your snipplet was broken).

The \s+ (one or more whitespace was just because I was annoyed by having to type "to" all the time during playing around. ;)

Hope you find all that interesting.. ;)

So long,
Flexx

In reply to Re: Matching two real numbers in a string using regex by Flexx
in thread Matching two real numbers in a string using regex by Anonymous Monk

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