need help with regular expressions

hi,
i need the correct regular expression to set the unnamed variable $1
to any of "FantasyMFG", "Fantasy.NET", or "FantasyACC" in the
following path:

FantasyMFG/tags/2.1.16

(where "FantasyMFG" may be replaced with any of the others)

this is for a system we are using. i've been battling this for a while
now, but there's a limit to how much time i can dedicate for this.

thanks,
tsahi

Re: need help with regular expressions

tsahiasher@gmail.com schreef:

> i need the correct regular expression to set the unnamed variable $1
> to any of "FantasyMFG", "Fantasy.NET", or "FantasyACC" in the
> following path:
>
> FantasyMFG/tags/2.1.16
>
> (where "FantasyMFG" may be replaced with any of the others)
>
> this is for a system we are using. i've been battling this for a while
> now, but there's a limit to how much time i can dedicate for this.

So what have you tried sofar?
(show minimal but complete code, that we can run)

Maybe this helps:

/(Fantasy(?:MFG|\.NET|ACC))/

--
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."

Re: need help with regular expressions

tsahiasher@gmail.com wrote:

> i need the correct regular expression to set the unnamed variable $1


$1 has a name. It's name is "dollar one".


--
Tad McClellan
email: perl -le "print scalar reverse qq/moc.noitatibaher\100cmdat/"

Re: need help with regular expressions

tsahiasher@gmail.com wrote:
>i need the correct regular expression to set the unnamed variable $1
>to any of "FantasyMFG", "Fantasy.NET", or "FantasyACC" in the
>following path:
>
>FantasyMFG/tags/2.1.16
>
>(where "FantasyMFG" may be replaced with any of the others)

Well, does it really have to be a RE and $1? It would be much easier and
probably faster to use a simple
(split '/', 'FantasyMFG/tags/2.1.16')[0];
instead.

jue

Re: need help with regular expressions

On Dec 24, 11:18 am, "Dr.Ruud" wrote:
> tsahias...@gmail.com schreef:
>
> > i need the correct regular expression to set the unnamed variable $1
> > to any of "FantasyMFG", "Fantasy.NET", or "FantasyACC" in the
> > following path:
>
> > FantasyMFG/tags/2.1.16
>
> > (where "FantasyMFG" may be replaced with any of the others)
>
> > this is for a system we are using. i've been battling this for a while
> > now, but there's a limit to how much time i can dedicate for this.
>
> So what have you tried sofar?
> (show minimal but complete code, that we can run)
>

this isn't for my code. it's for a config file of a Perl program i'm
using (Scmbug, if you are familiar with it). so far i tried

Fantasy[\s\.\w]+ (seems to work, but the Scmbug developer said "it
won't set the $1 unamed variable")

(Fantasy.+?)/ and (.+?)/ (for some reason Scmbug took these literaly
and not as REs)

> Maybe this helps:
>
> /(Fantasy(?:MFG|\.NET|ACC))/
>

i'll try that and see if it works.

Tsahi