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Subject: Re: regex capability
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:20:19 +0200
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On 04/04/2011 10:26, bugbear allegedly wrote:
> 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.
>
> In Java, I use
>
> while(matcher.find()) {
> ...
> }
>
> The key is that Matcher is stateful.

Yup. A regex is what you make of it.

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