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Re: regex capability

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Roedy Green wrote:
> Consider a string like this:
>
>   Support DDR2 1066/800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM
>
> Is it possible to compose a regex that will peel out those numbers for
> you each in its own field, or do you have to extract the string
> "1066/800/667/533/400" and use split?
>
> The various things I have tried just grab the last number.

I think normal practice (in Perl, and Java) would be repeated
use of a fairly simple regexp.

In Java, I use

while(matcher.find()) {
   ...
}

The key is that Matcher is stateful.

The perl version is
while (/pattern/g) {
     print "Found $1\n";
}

    BugBear

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      Re: regex capability Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-04-04 08:03 -0400
        Re: regex capability Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-04 05:25 -0700
        Re: regex capability David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2011-04-04 18:51 -0400
      Re: regex capability Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2011-04-04 17:07 -0700
  Re: regex capability bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-04-04 09:26 +0100
    Re: regex capability Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-04-04 19:20 +0200
    Re: regex capability Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-04 22:13 +0200
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