That's what I'm doing now as a workaround, but I need to run the regex
anyway to see if the input matches the correct format. The perfectionist in
me wants to extract the matches at the same time, and I want to know what's
wrong with my regex, coz otherwise how will I learn? :D
-Josh
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Scott Melby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josh -
>
> Maybe I am mis-understanding what you want to do... but, the following code
>
> var startStr:String ="objectA.objectB.objectC";
> var afterSplit:Array = startStr.split(".");
>
> results in
> afterSplit[0] == "objectA";
> afterSplit[1] == "objectB";
> afterSplit[2] == "objectC";
>
> Can you just split the String?
>
> hth
> Scott
>
>
>
> Josh McDonald wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I'm trying to turn this "objectA.objectB.objectC" into ["objectA",
> > "objectB", "objectC"] using a regex, but all I seem to get using
> > String.match() is ["objectA", "objectC"]. Can anybody tell me what's
> wrong
> > with the following?
> >
> > const multiLevelReferencePattern : RegExp =
> > /([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)(?:\.([a-zA-Z0-9_]+))+/;
> >
> > I also tried to match into ["objectA", ".objectB", ".objectC"] by
> throwing
> > out the non-matching group and rolling the "\." into the last matching
> > group, but I still get the same result (only the last match comes
> through).
> >
> > For now I've switched to a simpler regex in order to RegExp.test() the
> > string and then using String.explode(), but I would like to do both at
> once
> > using String.match() if possible.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Josh
> >
> >
>
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