[thelist] regex help

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at gmail.com
Fri Aug 25 07:28:02 CDT 2006


Thanks guys! Appreciate the explanation :) Let me just say....doh.

On 8/24/06, Anthony Baratta <anthony at baratta.com
<http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist>> wrote:
>* Try this...
*>*
*>* ^\d{5}$
*
Just to explain why this works and yours doesn't...

\d{5} says match 5 digits.

Can you find 5 consecutive digits in "1234567890"? Yes.

^\d{5}$ says match the  beginning of the string, 5 digits, then the
end of th string. Thus, it would not match the above string.



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