Okay this is going into my keepers file. Very useful. Wish the regex tuorials out there were explained this simply.
Bob On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > Hints to help you > > (?i) means case insensitive > [a-z] means a single lower case alpha char > [A-Z] means a single upper case alpha char > [0-9] means a single digit > > (?i)^[a-z][0-9]\.[a-z][0-9][0-9][a-z][a-z]\.[0-9][0-9]$ > means > upper or lower case for all matches > \. means a literal period character > ^ means a match must start at the beginning of a line > $ means a match must stop at the line ending char > > thus the matching string must have the same alpha-numeric positions and be > the same length, > white space not allowed, nor commas, quotes, and other punctuation. > > RegEx used to be Greek to me, but then I discovered it does not even closely > resemble Greek. > > On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> i have to check for an value in the format XX.YYYYY.ZZZ (e.g. A1.B35AZ.001 >> or a1.b35az.001) >> I have to check if the value is in the right format. I know i can do that >> with matchtext and a regular expression, but >> i do not know enough to get the regular expression to work. >> >> Is there anyone who might be able to help? >> > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution