[forwarded submission from a non-member address -- rjk]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:34:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] regex help
To: Joel Gwynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:58:52PM -0500, Joel Gwynn wrote:
> OK. I suck at regex's. Here's the thing. For my currency converter, I've
> got a bunch of currency symbols, like $, DM, HK$, etc. Let's say I want to
> match a price in Hong Kong dollars. The symbol is HK$ and I want to match
> HK$, not $. What's the regex to do this?
/HK\$/ # matches if the line has "HK$"
You probably want to capture the price as well
/HK\$\s*(\d+\.?\d*)/ # price in $1
This matches:
HK$ 100
HK$50
HK$ 62.4
HK$ 56.45
Also note that is captures the *leftmost* instance of the pattern
for a given line.
Hope this helps.
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