Re: regular expression
| From: | Tanel Tammik | Date: | Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:54:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: regular expression | ||
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"Peter Lind" <peter.e.lind@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 1 June 2010 17:33, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:31 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
>>
>>> $re1 = '/^[a-z]++$/i';
>>> $re2 = '/^[a-z ]++$/i';
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Why the double ++ in the expressions there? Surely one + would match the
>> 1 or more characters that you need and the second one would just be
>> surplus?
>>
>
> Equally important: why have three people already done this persons
> homework. 5 minutes googling would have answered this ...
>
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i made an regular expression now by myself. i need to check if string starts
with 'get' and is followed only by letters a-z case insensitive. am i
correct?
'/^get[a-z]++$/i'
Br
Tanel