Re^2: Grabbing the words

I want to get the next word from the pattern.For increasing the size of the pattern I have to get the next word from the left and right both ways. Suppose in the beginning we have

$pattern="(\s*TOTAL\s*FUND\s*OPERATING\s*)(\S.{0,21}?\S)(\s*\s*EXPENSE
+S\s*F\s*)"
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And after the pattern is occuring so many times in the document in which I had to search then I had to increase the size of the search .After increasing the size of the pattern it becomes

$pattern="(ther\s*Expenses\s*0\s*2600\s*\s*TOTAL\s*FUND\s*OPERATING\s*
+)(\S.{0,21}?\S)(\s*\s*EXPENSES\s*Fund\s*as\s*a\s*shareholder\s*in\s*u
+nderlying\s*fund\s*indirectly\s*bears\s*pro\s*rata\s*)"
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I hope this will help u get a better picture of the problem.

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Re^3: Grabbing the words by jhourcle (Prior) on Mar 22, 2005 at 12:39 UTC
I'm confused as to why you have to 'increase the size of the search'. (by which I'm not sure if you mean you're just changing the allowed range within the second set of capturing parenthesis, or something else). Could you also give some sample input, and what you would like as the output? I think that would help me understand the problem. (assuming the data that you're working with isn't confidential for some reason... which it might be, if its financial reports, based on the headers) Update: okay, I should've looked at the two regex closer -- he's adding to the first and third capturing sets. (I still don't understand why that logic is being used, though	[reply]

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Re^3: Grabbing the words
by jhourcle (Prior) on Mar 22, 2005 at 12:39 UTC

I'm confused as to why you have to 'increase the size of the search'. (by which I'm not sure if you mean you're just changing the allowed range within the second set of capturing parenthesis, or something else).

Could you also give some sample input, and what you would like as the output? I think that would help me understand the problem. (assuming the data that you're working with isn't confidential for some reason... which it might be, if its financial reports, based on the headers)

Update: okay, I should've looked at the two regex closer -- he's adding to the first and third capturing sets. (I still don't understand why that logic is being used, though

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