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Re: Regex: Any character in character class

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Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
>> schrieb Arne Vajhï¿œj:
>> [snip]
>>> And also round brackets for the last part.
>>>
>>> .+?:(.|\n)+
>>>
>>> I think I must have set a new world record. 3 bugs in 12 characters.
> 
>>> :-(
> 
>> Here's a concrete example:
>>
>> SCA:LIST, select[werks_s:default_plant],values[bukrs:bukrs,
>> company:company]
> 
>> The second part is everything after the first comma. I was using

You mean 'expression.substring(expression.indexOf(',') + 1)'?
(modulo the usual error checks, of course)

> > (.+?),[\s\S]+

>> Arne's suggestion modified for my needs (comma as separator, and I only
>> want to capture the first part as a group) will work fine as well:

You mean 'expression.substring(0, expression.indexOf(','))'?

> > (.+?),(?:.|\n)+
> 
>> Can't say though that I find anything to prefer the one to the other.
>> Perhaps the second looks even more like the result of a cat walk...

If all you need to do is split a string on a comma, why use regexes at all?

> It is not unusual that there is more than one regex that
> does the job.

It is not unusual that there is more than one non-regex that does the job.

-- 
Lew

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Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-01-30 10:34 +0100
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Mikhail Vladimirov <vladimirow@mail.ru> - 2013-01-30 02:05 -0800
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-30 22:26 -0500
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Mikhail Vladimirov <vladimirow@mail.ru> - 2013-01-30 02:07 -0800
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-30 22:27 -0500
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-01 05:35 -0400
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-02-01 21:14 +0100
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-01 12:54 -0800
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-01 16:47 -0500
        Re: Regex: Any character in character class markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-01 14:06 -0800
          Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-01 17:13 -0500
            Re: Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-02-02 20:45 +0100
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-02 12:20 -0800
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-02 16:03 -0500
                Re: Regex: Any character in character class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-02 13:23 -0800
                Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-02 20:18 -0500
            Re: Regex: Any character in character class Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-02-04 14:26 -0800
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-02-05 00:03 +0000
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-02-02 00:08 +0100

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