[thelist] RegEx problem again [solved]

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 11:27:29 CDT 2005


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Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> --- "Kowalkowski, Lee (ASPIRE)" <lee.kowalkowski at hmrcaspire.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Tom Dell'Aringa [mailto:pixelmech at yahoo.com]
> 
> 
>>>Which worked just fine, till we realized we need to allow one 
>>>or more SPACES as well! How do you
>>>add a space to the pattern? (and allow for as many spaces as 
>>>they like?)
>>
>>Just add a space to the character sets, so [a-zA-Z] becomes [a-zA-Z ].  Note
>>the space before the closing square bracket.
> 
> 
> That worked perfect, Lee thanks!

Doing this will count the spaces as one of the 3 or 4 characters,
which I assume is not what you want to do.

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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