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Re: Regex: Any character in character class

From	markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Regex: Any character in character class
Date	2013-02-01 14:06 -0800
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On 2/1/2013 1:47 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> [.]+:[.|\n]+


Watch out for this.  +, being greedy, will match a : in the selection 
expression (the 2nd part) if : is allowed in the second part.

The reluctant modifier might be a better idea here:

.+?:[.|\n]+

Note that I don't think the initial brackets [] were needed.  Also we're 
yet again starting to see the problem with regex: it always evolves into 
something that looks like your cat walked across the keyboard.

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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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