hi,

i need a suggestion on how to do this in more elegant way

Identities\s+=\s+(.+)\s+\((.+)\%\),\s+Positives =\s+(.+)\s+\((.+)\%\),
+\s+Negatives\s+=\s+(.+)\s+\((.+)\%\)/g

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i have this regex that for which every line is evaluated through a while() loop. but some lines do not contain all necesery parameters for a regex to match and therefor if a parameter Positives is missing then the whole line would be skipped and that is not good. i know i could do it by splitting a line starting with a word Identities and then extract the data from it. but there are some complication that then appear and i wish to avoid that.

so my question is: is there a more elegant way to match a line check if parameters(in this case Identities,Negatives,Positives )exists and if some are missing just ignore that and deal with ones that do exist.

thnx

Update:

That is it dreadpiratepeter !!

thnx

In reply to Regex question by baxy77bax

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