Re: Problem with RegEx & various "endings"

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Re^2: Problem with RegEx & various "endings" by linuxer (Curate) on Jul 01, 2008 at 15:28 UTC
I'd add perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial and perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start for the beginners.	[reply]
Re^2: Problem with RegEx & various "endings" by timesink (Initiate) on Jul 01, 2008 at 14:25 UTC
thanks for the page :D forgot about the documentation there :( selfhtml is a nice site but (of course) this one is much more "complete" so with this site & the help of another programmer I updated my regex to: `$teststring =~ /([A-Z]*)[_\][:space:]]/i` [download] I have to include every new "end"-sign but I think that's ok :) I tried to set up something like this before but it didn't work because I had a syntax error in it. Around three hours of 'work' and then something like this xD But that's programming, huh ;)? Now I'll try to include the other info like used Codec/Checksum etc but I think with the solution above that I will be able to solve this "remaining" problem on my own. Thanks for everyone who helped me, I'm really grateful to you all :) Bye for now, timesink	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Problem with RegEx & various "endings" by pjotrik (Friar) on Jul 01, 2008 at 14:41 UTC
Actually, if it really is _so simple_ and the rule is "use the first word" you don't need to specify the stop characters, greediness of the '+' will do the job for you: `$teststring =~ /(\w+)/ ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Problem with RegEx & various "endings" by timesink (Initiate) on Jul 01, 2008 at 15:08 UTC
yes you're right :( but keep in mind that I just started to work with RegEx's (as you have noticed by now ;P) so I don't know every possibility even with a documentation at hand.It's by far the most confusing thing I encountered since I started with programming ;) (and there are still much more confusing things out there _) Thanks for your hint :)	[reply]