Re: Regex capture between word and punctuation

Why, O Why, does this look like a homework assignment? Never mind.

Hint 1: The regex you would be looking for is something like this: /\bit\b.*[,.?]$/i

Hint 2: use a regex to strip off everything before the first (last?) "it" and print the remainder of the line.

Note that hints are not complete solutions.

Also, your title is not sufficiently descriptive of the problem you are looking for assistance on.

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Re^2: Regex capture between word and punctuation by negzero7 (Sexton) on Mar 18, 2008 at 17:06 UTC
Thank you for the help. This isn't homework, I'm out of college, but this is from a book. And I'm not looking for a complete solution, just some help with my regular expression (and apparently a loop I missing :D). Please don't think I want hand holding, just a point in the right direction so to speak. Or someone to say I did/doing something wrong. I apologize for my crappy thread title, I'll be more descriptive in the future. Thanks for the fast responses!	[reply]

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Re^2: Regex capture between word and punctuation
by negzero7 (Sexton) on Mar 18, 2008 at 17:06 UTC

Thank you for the help. This isn't homework, I'm out of college, but this is from a book. And I'm not looking for a complete solution, just some help with my regular expression (and apparently a loop I missing :D). Please don't think I want hand holding, just a point in the right direction so to speak. Or someone to say I did/doing something wrong. I apologize for my crappy thread title, I'll be more descriptive in the future. Thanks for the fast responses!

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