From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-13T03:54:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with a regexp

Hi --

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> My problem is that I have a string like this: "3:foo6:monkey5:sheep", which I 
> need to separate into ["foo", "monkey", "sheep"]. The values can contain 
> numeric values, so splitting at \d won't work. This is what makes it 
> difficult:
>
>  "3:ab23:cat5:sheep" => ["ab2", "cat", "sheep"]
>
> I need to grab the number, then read that many characters, then read the next 
> number, etc.

How do you know, in the case of:

   2:ab23:cat

which of the two is invalid?


David

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