From: Paul <reverselogic@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T05:25:26+09:00
Subject: Re: regex question

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You could try matching anything that's not a -, + or number in your first
group, e.g.

([^-+0-9]*)

Note that I'm assuming Ruby uses Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

Cheers,

Paul

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:15 PM, J. Cooper <nefigah@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I am scanning through chat logs looking for messages where I
> mentioned "points". My current regex is:
> text.scan /^(.*)([-+]?[0-9]+\s+points?)(.*)$/i
> So I'd like each match in 3 groups:
> 1. The message up until the part containing the points
> 2. The points part. This could have a + or - prefix, 1 or more digits,
> and an optional s after point
> 3. The rest of the message line.
>
> My problem is, the (.*) is eating up parts that I would like to appear
> in group 2. I just bought a book on regex but I'm not very far yet :(
> Any help would be appreciated!
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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