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Re: Regular expression help


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dodekaedergu... Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:58 am


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Re: Regular expression help
> I also run into a very similar situation several other times in the
> document, where there is a group of miscellaneou character (including
> single white spaces), followed by a bunch of spaces
> For Example
> MS - Mfg. Straigh Time 65.63

(not tested!)

/ ^
s* # skip initial white space
(S.*S|S) # first field, embedded white space allowed
s+ # separating white space to second field
(S+) # second field
$
/x

Should work, but does anyone know if we can make the definition for
the first field simpler?

Ronald
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