From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2008-11-13T07:56:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Matching

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On 2008.11.12., at 23:46, Peter Szinek wrote:

>> I am trying to parse out some characters from a string and I am  
>> having
>> some trouble because the string may have a space or it may not.
>> Basically I have a string that looks like this:
>>
>> Seattle, WA[SEA]   or
>> Colorado Springs, CO[COS]   or
>> Denver, CO[DEN]
>>
>> What I have so far to match the Seattle and Denver strings looks like
>> this:
>>
>> /[A-Z]{1,1}[a-z]+[,]\s[A-Z]+\[{1,1}/
>>
>> This regular expression is trying to grab everything within the [];  
>> in
>> the cases above this would be SEA, COS, DEN.

Here is a 'full' solution that should cover these cases:

 >> "Colorado Springs, CO[COS]"[/(\w|\s)+, [A-Z]{2}\[(.+?)\]/,2]
=> "COS"
 >> "Denver, CO[DEN]"[/(\w|\s)+, [A-Z]{2}\[(.+?)\]/,2]
=> "DEN"




Cheers,
Peter
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