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Subject: Re: Regex: Any character in character class
From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
>> schrieb Arne Vajh=EF=BF=9Cj:
>> [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.
>=20
>>> :-(
>=20
>> Here's a concrete example:
>>
>> SCA:LIST, select[werks_s:default_plant],values[bukrs:bukrs,
>> company:company]
>=20
>> 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)+
>=20
>> 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.

--=20
Lew