regular expression

[hugo]

I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse records
like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the rest. I
want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest possible.

Thanks

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Re: regular expression

hugo wrote:[color=blue]
> I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
> segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
> TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse
> records like the following,
>
> TAGxxx
> TAGxxxxxTAGxx
> TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx
>
> and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the
> rest. I want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest
> possible.[/color]

my @tags = /TAG.*?(?=TAG|\n )/g;

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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[Blaine Everingham]

Re: regular expression

Why don't you just use a split statement.... It woudl be faster then a rege
exp.


"hugo" <hugodogo@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:81faa37b.0 401061833.1b94c 475@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
> segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
> TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse records
> like the following,
>
> TAGxxx
> TAGxxxxxTAGxx
> TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx
>
> and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the rest. I
> want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest possible.
>
> Thanks[/color]