why does this regexpression match
\w+\d+
match 68 in this
"1/8 Fender '68 TELECASTER Miniature(Pink Paisley)[RARE]",
ive told it to at least match one letter before it matches any
numbers???
(i dont actually want it to match anything with this sentance).
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It's because \w stands for [a-zA-Z0-9], that is an uppercase letter or a
lowercase letter or a digit. To achieve what you want you need this:
/[a-zA-Z]+\d+/
Stefano
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Adam Akhtar wrote:
why does this regexpression match
\w+\d+
match 68 in this
"1/8 Fender '68 TELECASTER Miniature(Pink Paisley)[RARE]",
ive told it to at least match one letter before it matches any
numbers???(i dont actually want it to match anything with this sentance).
Adam Akhtar wrote:
why does this regexpression match
\w+\d+
match 68 in this
"1/8 Fender '68 TELECASTER Miniature(Pink Paisley)[RARE]",
ive told it to at least match one letter before it matches any
numbers???(i dont actually want it to match anything with this sentance).
It matchs on rubular (rubular.com) see:
http://www.rubular.com/regexes/946
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hey stefano thanks for pointing that out...cant believe i missed that
one.
isnt there a shorthand version for just letters or do you have to always
write out [a-zA-Z]???
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Thanks Mateusz as well!
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Stefano Crocco wrote:
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Adam Akhtar wrote:
why does this regexpression match
\w+\d+
match 68 in this
"1/8 Fender '68 TELECASTER Miniature(Pink Paisley)[RARE]",
ive told it to at least match one letter before it matches any
numbers???(i dont actually want it to match anything with this sentance).
It's because \w stands for [a-zA-Z0-9], that is an uppercase letter or a
lowercase letter or a digit.
And also underscore.
David
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As far as I know, there's not such shortcut.
Stefano
On Thursday 21 August 2008, Adam Akhtar wrote:
hey stefano thanks for pointing that out...cant believe i missed that
one.isnt there a shorthand version for just letters or do you have to always
write out [a-zA-Z]???
# isnt there a shorthand version for just letters or do you
# have to always write out [a-zA-Z]???
try
/[a-z]/i
or
/[[:alpha:]]/
kind regards -botp
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