From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2007-08-17T03:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: grep a csv?

On Aug 16, 11:23 am, Kaldrenon <kaldre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] I'm a little confused about how a pattern
> like [^,]+ gets an element, given that (unless I'm mistaken) in a
> standard regexp, it would only match on a string that contained a
> series of commas that beginning of a line, like ",,," or "abc\n,,".
> What's my mistake/confusion here?

/,+/     # matches one or more comma characters
/[z,]+/  # matches one or more z or comma characters intermixed
/[^,]+/  # matches one or more characters that aren't a comma

Read up on character classes in regexps.