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Re: [MacPerl] regex fun...

On 13 Dec 1999 22:54:59 PST, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:

>/(\d*)d(.\d*)?(\(\d*\))?/

>     But basically what the problem is, is that with the above regexp "3d(5)"
>will give me {3,(5,} instead of {3,,5}.

Try turning '(\(' to '\(('.

  /(\d*)d(.\d*)?\((\d*\))?/

And I like "(.?\d*)" instead of "(.\d*)?". It then is always defined,
but possibly with length 0.

And you might be a bit more specific than just "." for the '+'.

-- 
	Bart.

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