Venerable Monks,

I have written a small regular expression which I would like to be verified.Though the regular expression is working but I just wanted to check if there is a better way of picking up the values from the text string.Here it is...

Test String :

TAG001 LOCATION UPDATE 2009-05-08 14:30:50 TAG002 32300045985 11580;;543;MARIANO ESCOBEDO;OF 406 C 323 2 ACTIVE 2008-07-25 18:07:11 ERO007 2009-05-08 14:30:50 JTE015 1T61FJWLB97R2 MX TAG005 WENDA MARIANO ESCOBEDO 543 OF 406 COL RINCON DEL BOSQUE 11580 MEXICO DF DF MEXICO WNE051125MS8 10 Online PARTIAL 2 ZEXC 37 ES 0000000000094 TAG029 32300045984 1 TAG029

My Objective was is to pick two values from the above test string:

1.The value appearing after TAG002 i.e 32300045985 in $1

2.All of the strings appearing between TAG005 and the 'very first TAG029' in $2

The regular expression I wrote is:

.+TAG002 (\d+).+TAG005 (.+?)TAG029

Though the regular expression is working fine just wanted to check if there is a better way of doing it.Please comment if you think there was a better way to write the regular expression.

NOTE:The test string has special characters.

Thanks & Regards,

Gyatso

Update:

Thanks Utilitarian and Suaveant for your comments and suggestions.

Regards,

Gyatso

In reply to Please comment on my regular expression. by Gyatso

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