Re: A quick Regex query

At 4:57 PM -0500 2/16/06, phplists wrote:

Hi, I am using the following: [0-9]{4} [A-Za-zÅØ]{2,20} to extract data like: 1000 Øslo How can I alter the above to limit to ONLY 4 digits, or in other words exclude: 11000 Beograd Please note that what I am extracting from is NOT at the begining of a line, so I can't use the ^ first.

How about: ^[^\d\r]*([0-9]{4} [A-Za-zÅØ]{2,20}) The backreferenced pattern $1 contains the extracted string.

Also, you may notice a couple of 'special' characters in my expression 'Å + Ø' By putting them in they seem to work fine, but is this the best way of doing it?

I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that. -Jim