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Re: regex capability

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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> 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.

Easiest is to just use split. You can always do a regex of the type 
"(\\d+)/((\\d+)/)?((\\d+)/)?((\\d+)/)?" but that's just pointlessly
complicated. There's no reason why you should use a regex when "normal"
string parsing is simpler and easier to read. 

-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred

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regex capability Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-04 00:19 -0700
  Re: regex capability Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2011-04-04 02:34 -0500
    Re: regex capability Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-04-04 00:50 -0700
      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
      Re: regex capability markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-04 18:35 -0700
        Re: regex capability bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2011-04-05 09:09 +0100
        Re: regex capability Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 02:10 -0700
          Re: regex capability Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-04-05 05:28 -0700
            Re: regex capability Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-05 06:33 -0700
              Re: regex capability markspace <-@.> - 2011-04-05 10:07 -0700

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