Re: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w)

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Re^2: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by markjrouse (Initiate) on Feb 23, 2012 at 15:34 UTC
Thanks, still learning reg exps. Even if I do this: `^([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+,)` [download] I still get lowercase characters: `ABU BAKR Sabaqah School` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by toolic (Bishop) on Feb 23, 2012 at 15:40 UTC
I don't get that output with your regex: `use warnings; use strict; while (<DATA>) { print if /^([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+,)/; } __DATA__ ABU BAKR, Ibrahim Ali Muhammad (a.k.a. AL-LIBI, Abd al-Muhsin) (individual) [SDGT] AFGHAN SUPPORT COMMITTEE (ASC) (a.k.a. AHYA UL TURAS; a.k.a. JAMIAT AYAT-UR-RHAS AL ISLAMIA; a.k.a. JAMIAT IHYA UL TURATH AL ISLAMIA; a.k.a. LAJNAT UL MASA EIDATUL AFGHANIA) Grand Trunk Road, near Pushtoon Garhi Pabbi, Peshawar, Pakistan; Cheprahar Hadda, Mia Omar Sabaqah School, Jalalabad, Afghanistan [SDGT]` [download] prints: `ABU BAKR, Ibrahim Ali Muhammad (a.k.a. AL-LIBI, Abd al-Muhsin)` [download] See http://sscce.org	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by tye (Sage) on Feb 23, 2012 at 15:40 UTC
Since the regex you show will not match any lowercase letters and requires a comma and the match you show contains lowercase letters and no comma, I'm pretty sure you are not running the code you think you are (or similar mistake). - tye	[reply]
Re^3: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by bitingduck (Deacon) on Feb 23, 2012 at 16:23 UTC
Try posting your complete regex from "s" through ";" (e.g. `s/([ A-Z]+)/myreplacement/gixm;` -- it will make it clear what you're actually applying. Even better, post a small chunk of runnable code. It sounds from previous posts that you're just reading in lines and processing them in a pretty straightforward way, so the code should be quite short. A couple hours with a regex tutorial would also help you get going faster- the questions you're posting are chapter 1 or 2 kind of things, because they're almost the first thing everyone wants to do.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 23, 2012 at 15:44 UTC
Negative. `perl -e 'print "Sabaqah School," =~ /^([A-Z]+\s[A-Z]+),/ ? "Yes" : "No +"' No` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Fine tuning a reg exp (\w) by brx (Pilgrim) on Feb 23, 2012 at 16:20 UTC
You should post your program. Take care of "modifiers" (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Modifiers) : `while (<DATA>) { /([A-Z]+)/i; # upper AND lower! print $1,"\n"; }` [download] output : ABU individual AFGHAN AYAT a Pushtoon Sabaqah	[reply] [d/l]