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| Subject | Re: regex puzzle |
| Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:25:14 -0700 |
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On 10/31/2012 1:54 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2012-10-30 21:16, markspace <-@> wrote:
>> On 10/30/2012 6:48 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Java Regexps seem to be Perl-compatible, so
>>>
>>> s.replaceAll(""(\S*?)"", "<span class=\"quoted\">$1</span>");
>>>
>>
>> I don't think this will work, in the general case. What about input like:
>>
>> Hi"I'm-a"-dash-seperated-"string."
>>
>> You'll end up with one replacement,
>
> No, that should be two replacements: The *? operator is non-greedy, so
> \\S*? matches the shortest possible sequence of non-space characters.
OK, what about the obverse? What if the quoted string contains
whitespace?
Not trying to bug you, but regex is tricky, and I don't often see it as
an ideal, solution, so I'm trying to learn its corner cases.
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regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-29 13:46 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 14:48 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-30 05:59 -0700
Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-30 14:48 +0100
Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-30 14:16 -0700
Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-10-31 09:54 +0100
Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-31 11:25 -0700
Re: regex puzzle "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-01 13:56 +0100
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-01 18:46 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:09 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:11 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 16:22 -0700
Re: regex puzzle markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-31 17:29 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-01 18:43 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-30 16:39 -0700
Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:33 -0700
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