Posted by Anno Siegel on 09/15/05 12:49

phal <betterdie@gmail.com> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:

Please post attributions and some context when you reply.

> ---------------------------------------
> If this is the regular expression
> /^\s*(\d+\.\d+)|(\.\d+)|(\d+)\s*$/
>
> How does this:
> 40:26:46.302N 79:56:55.903W
>
> ==========
> You can use this method
> =~/(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\.(\d{4})\s+(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})\.(\d{4})/gi

Why the "/i"? It does nothing.

The OP doesn't want a regex that matches "40:26:46.302N 79:56:55.903W".
He was wondering why his original regex did match it and wanted it
corrected so that it doesn't.

> I don't know whether you want to slice the letter or not, but you still

Slice the letter?

> able to retireve it by this method.
> I haven't check whehter it is correctly run, i just type in as what i
> see.

Well, it doesn't match. Your regex requires \d{4}, twice. There is
no sequence of four digits in the given string.

All in all, a pretty useless contribution.

Anno
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