Rob Dixon schreef: > I thought the group might like this one. > > I want a regex to check whether a string contains a sequence of > non-space characters with /both/ word and non-word characters in it > (\w and \W). > > So > > 'Rob' > 'SHREWSBURY' > 'SY3 8BH' > 'Mike & Dave' > > all pass, but > > 'http://www.site.com/' > 'Rob&Dave' > '2+2' > > all fail. I'll be thinking on this myself later...
- split on whitespace - check each value with /\A(?:\w+|\W+)\z/ Combined: /\A\s*(?:\w+|\W+)(?:\s+(?:\w+|\W+))*\s*\z/ or if you normalize (1) the string first: /\A(?:\w+|\W+)(?: (?:\w+|\W+))*\z/ (1) normalize: s/\A\s+//, s/\s+\z//, s/\s+/ /g -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
