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Re: regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect
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Jérôme M. Berger |
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Re: regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect |
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Thu, 10 May 2012 19:13:48 +0200 |
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AngusC wrote:
> I expected to be able to do things like this:
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> Example text to find
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env1,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env2,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env3,1,
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> But if my regex search string is
> ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]
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> Then it only finds text up to 1, Passed,0,Q
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> How do I get it to find all of text like A_BC_D and A_CCCCCC_S
Putting a set of characters between square brackets will only match
one character from the set. You can then use the usual repetition
operators (?, *, or +) to match more than one character (so in your
case, ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]+ should do what you want).
Jerome
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