From: Sam Kong <sam.s.kong@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T06:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex question: this should be easy but doesn't work as I expect.

Hi William,

William James wrote:

>   /(one) two (?:(three) )?four (five)/

I simplified the actual problem.
I guess the simplification did not interpret my problem well.

I was parsing html source into price, image, description, etc.
The image is sometimes missing.

In the example, let's assume that "two" and "four" are arbiturary text.
So the text might be "...one...three...five" where "..." means some
arbiturary text.
If "three" is missing, it will be "...one.....five...".

Can you reconsider the problem please?

Sam