On Sep 6, Paul Jasa said:
>/((?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})/
>
>what is this part: (?:\d{1,3}\.)
>and this: {3}\d{1,3}
Ok. (?: ... ) groups part of the regex. It just binds it together as one
big clump.
The {3} is a quantifier, like {1,3}. {1,3} means "1, 2, or 3 times". {3}
means "exactly 3 times".
So (?:\d{1,3}\.){3} matches the same way that \d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.
does, only it's shorter and easier to read.
>I am lost.... jst want to understand, or if youwant to refer me to a page
>on the Camel book I can look it up myself. Thanks again!!
Look for the chapter on regexes (in Camel III) or else look at the
'perlretut' documentation on http://www.perldoc.com/.
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