From: Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@...>
Date: 2008-06-21T05:00:51+09:00
Subject: Re: RegEx

Hi David,

> And, in this case, the characters ( and ) :-)

Great observation!

I hope to see you at RubyConf this year!

Best regards,

Wayne

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:43 PM, David A. Black <dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, prubel@bbn.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>>
>> Justin To writes:
>> > Awesome, thanks for the help... I have one other regex question though,
>> > pertaining to the same problem I'm trying to do
>> >
>> > /^(\d+\.[(7)(11)])$/
>> >
>> > That's my regex... it's suppose to match something like:
>> >
>> > 213823.7
>> > or
>> > 848494223.11
>>
>> One interesting thing to note is that it will match 7.1 but not 7.11.
>>
>> What you need is some alteration, you want either 7 or 11. What you
>> have is 'choose from the set,' []. Where the set ends up containing
>> the characters 7 and 1.
>
> And, in this case, the characters ( and ) :-)
>
>
> David
>
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