From: calvin8@... (Andi Scharfstein)
Date: 2003-06-11T07:17:33+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Regexp question

Hi,

>>> Add "South Dakota (00)", "New Jersey (29332)" to your tests...  =)
>>
>> Right. /^(\w+)\s?[\(|\n]/ ?

> Does not work :(

Yeah, sorry. That one contained two errors:
Firstly, a space does not register as \w (that's the reason it didn't
work). Secondly, | in a square bracket is unnecessary. So, if you
wanted to do it this way (which I don't expect you will, considering
the great advice you already got on this list), the regex should read
/^(.+)\s?[\(\n]/

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