[thelist] RegExp: new weird problem

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tab Alleman" <Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:20 AM


> 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?$

Tab,

The | is basically breaking your regex and half and indicating that it can
match either

^PER NIGHT STARTING

or

ON [0-9]{1,2}\s?[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{0,4} FOR (\d{1,2}) NIGHTS?$

You'll need to wrap the STARTING|ON in ().  Eg:

^PER NIGHT (STARTING|ON) [0-9]{1,2}\s?[A-Z]{3}[0-9]{0,4} FOR (\d{1,2})
NIGHTS?$

That tells the parser that either STARTING or ON can be in that spot in the
string.

HTH,

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Joshua Olson
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