From: Alessandro Re <akirosspower@...>
Date: 2007-08-02T18:23:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Multiple matching with ()*

On 8/1/07, Harry Kakueki <list.push@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Alessandro Re <akirosspower@gmail.com> wrote:
> > while i need to be sure that the pattern begins with a regex "x" and
> > ends with "z"
> >
> > (of course, x 1 a 2 b 3 c should be regexes not just chars)
> >
> Sorry, I misunderstood what you wanted.
> Is this more like it?
>
> str = "lol1a2vasd"
> m = /^(\w{3})(.*)(\w{3})$/.match(str).captures
> m[1] = m[1].scan(/\d\w/)
> p m.flatten #>  ["lol","1a","2v","asd"]
>
> Harry
>
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Yep, it's like this.
I solved using 2 instructions as you did: first matching extern words,
then the middle ones, but i still think that one regex would have been
nicer :)

Thanks guys

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~Ale