From: Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Date: 2006-09-29T18:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help


  Hello

> I have a string of the form
> 
> 2h 3m
> 
> or
> 
> 3m 2h
> [....]
> Is there a smart regexp one liner that could produce
> 
> [2, 3]

  If you want to get [2,3] in both cases, that will be really difficult.
As far as I know, you can only do that in C#, which has named capturing
groups. In all the other languages I know, the capturing groups are
numbered when they are found... That rules it out.

  By the way, would it be difficult to implement named capturing groups
in regular expressions ? Would that interest someone ?

  Cheers !

	Vince