From: "cyber c." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-13T10:30:01+09:00
Subject: Problem with reg exp

Hi,

I need to match

str1 = "ABC12A2012"
str2 = "ABC13B2013KEYWORD"

i have to extract,
word1 = ABC, word2 = 12A2012 for str1
word1 = ABC, word2 = 13B2013 for str2

i have used
str.split(/([a-zA-Z]+)(.*)(KEYWORD?)/)

for str2 i get substrings as
"","ABC","12A2012","KEYWORD" --  Why did the nil sub string popped up?

for str1 i get only 1 substring which is the entire string

Any one can spot the problem , please let me know.

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