sebb, Ronan,
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH ! I was really despairing here... and this
solution works !
(I really need to brush up on my regex knowledge, for it is also very
useful for functional automation when you need to find objects whose
names are unknown but follow a certain pattern...)
Thanks again !
hiro
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 14:20 +0000, sebb wrote:
> On 14/11/2008, Ronan Klyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hiro Protagonist wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I know this is, strictly speaking, off-topic. BUT, given the great
> > > knowledge of people responding here, I thought I'd see if someone had
> > > solved this problem before and can help....
> > >
> > > What I need is: a regex that shows all lines which contain 39 or less
> > > commas, **with anything in between those 39 commas**. I got as far as
> > > this:
> > >
> > > ,{38}.*,{1}
> > >
> > > but this has the disadvantage that it only picks up lines that start
>
> Not so. It can start matching anywhere in the line.
> It also only allows anything other than a comma after the first 38 commas.
>
> > > with a comma - not ones that don't. I am quite bad with regular
> > > expressions, so I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
> >
> >
> > Your regex also has the problem that '.' will match a comma. The
> > character set [^,] will match anything that's not a comma, so I think
> > you want this:
> >
> > ([^,]*,){,39}[^,]*
> >
>
> Except that this does not disallow leading or trailing commas.
>
> I think it needs to be:
>
> ^([^,]*,){,39}[^,]*$
>
> >
> > # r
> >
> >
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