Re: experimenting with REGEX

[John McKay <jmckay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

\w will match anything that is alphanumeric

\W will match anything that is NOT alphanumeric.


Regards,
John McKay
www.rpglanguage.com

On 23/01/2012 16:42, Smith, Mike wrote:
> Ok, I've made some minor progress but This is proving frustrating.
> I can get this to work
>
> scpattern = '[0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
>
> but these does not
>
> scpattern = '[0-9][0-9][0-9]\W[0-9][0-9]\W[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'
> scpattern = '\d{2,3}\W\d{2,3}\W\d{3,4}';
> scpattern = 'd{03}-\d{2}-\d{4}';
>
> ideally I would like to take the pattern that I have working, but allow
> the dash to be anything other can an alpha or numeric.
>
> > From the previous replies, it looks like the \W should do that but I get nothing.  Any ideas.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
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