[thelist] RegExp: new weird problem
Tab Alleman
Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com
Fri Sep 12 09:20:41 CDT 2003
Ok, now my pattern looks like this:
^PER NIGHT STARTING|ON [0-9]{1,2}\s?[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{0,4} FOR (\d{1,2})
NIGHTS?$
Because sometimes I'll get input that looks like this: "PER NIGHT
STARTING 05 MAR FOR 4 NIGHTS"
And sometimes it looks like this: "PER NIGHT ON 05MAR03 FOR 3 NIGHTS"
So the change from yesterday is that I've added the "STARTING|ON", and
the [0-9]{0,4} to catch the possibility that a year will come after the
month.
But when I try to match: "PER NIGHT STARTING 22 MAR FOR 5 NIGHTS",
The only part that matches is: "PER NIGHT STARTING"
Why? Did I not do the "STARTING|ON" correctly? The pattern matches
correctly to "PER NIGHT ON 05MAR03 FOR 3 NIGHTS"
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