From: Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T18:14:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexp help

Not so difficult, but it's not, as far as I can see, a
one liner. I am working something up at the moment
using an array of regexps.

--- Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
wrote:

> 
>   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
> 
> 


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