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I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse records
like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the rest. I
want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest possible.

Thanks
Jul 19 '05 #1
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hugo wrote:
I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse
records like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the
rest. I want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest
possible.


my @tags = /TAG.*?(?=TAG|\n )/g;

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Jul 19 '05 #2
Why don't you just use a split statement.... It woudl be faster then a rege
exp.
"hugo" <hu******@yahoo .com> wrote in message
news:81******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com...
I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse records
like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxT AGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the rest. I
want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest possible.

Thanks

Jul 19 '05 #3

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