Re: OT - Regular Expression

# arpad@rajeczy.com / 2007-02-09 12:44:40 +0000: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >This shouldn't do too much backtracking, try it out: > > > >"*8*" => /^(?:\d*8\d*){4}$/ > > > > > The {4} in there repeats the subpattern 4 times, rather than limiting it > to 4 characters. OMG. Sorry, haven't got enough sleep. > I really can't think of an elegant to do what you ask with regex - why > limit yourself to regex anyway? > It would be far simpler to just convert * to .* and check the length > separately with strlen(), plus if you check the length first then you > don't need regex at all if it fails. Yup. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991