Re^2: seeking improvement in my smiple program using regular expression

hmmmm
My code works, but I thought writing out ([^ ]+)(?:\s+) 18 times was stupid
I thought there could be a way to do this

([^ ]+\s+){17}(\d{1,3})(?:\s+)
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But clearly above is not correct..
your split code is neat though.. Let me look into that as well

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Re^3: seeking improvement in my smiple program using regular expression by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Aug 05, 2007 at 12:56 UTC
`s/((?:\S+\s+){17})\d+(\s+\d+)$/$1$count$2/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]