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Regular expression to find word at the beginning of each line and read entire line.

Hi all,

I am looking for a regular expression to find a word at the beginning
of a line and then read the entire line. From the example below, I want
to find the word "FN" and then read entire line "FN:Robert Henry".

------------------
BEGIN:VCARD
FN:Robert Henry
EMAIL;WORK;PREF :mycompany.com
TEL;WORK:office
------------------

Many thanks in advance.

- Haps

Oct 15 '05 #1
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ma*******@gmail .com wrote:
I am looking for a regular expression to find a word at the beginning
of a line and then read the entire line. From the example below, I want
to find the word "FN" and then read entire line "FN:Robert Henry".

------------------
BEGIN:VCARD
FN:Robert Henry
EMAIL;WORK;PREF :mycompany.com
TEL;WORK:office
------------------


^fn\b.*

be sure to set the ignorecase and multiline options.

--

i'm midnightbeach.c om and a mtn bike accident
means i'm left handed until the end of october,
so please pardon lower case and terseness.
Oct 15 '05 #2
Thanks Jon.

Oct 16 '05 #3

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