[thelist] RegExp: new weird problem

[Joshua Olson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tab Alleman" <Tab.Alleman at MetroGuide.com>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:49 AM


> Argh, I found that changing my pattern to:

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

> Fixes the problem, but it means that I have to return "STARTING" or "ON"
> as a submatch, and I don't wanna.  Do I hafta, or is there another way?

Tab,

Two options:

1.  Ignore the match and use $2
2.  Make it (?:ON|STARTING) so that the match doesn't return a substring.

Good luck,

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Joshua Olson
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WAE Tech Inc.
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