Regex to check for numbers with minus and a letter behind them?

[Smokey Grindel]

Alright so I have a string... that can be anything like this then have a
number like 102.34m, yes there is a m behind it to say "this is money", no I
didn't design the spec thats just how data comes in... well I had a regex
that replaces all those m's in a string where there is a number before it
with no m... so its just the string with 102.34... well this worked fine
until we got negative money! so now when its -102.34m it still has the m...
here is my original regex replace string... any idea on how to change it so
that negative numbers work also? this regex seems to work ok now... (im not
great at regex's... this one took some thinking on my part to figure out so
im not even sure its entirely correct! but it seems to do what i want it
to)... any help would be GREAT! thanks!

/* Look for numbers in a string that have a m behind them and replace the m
with a null string character or space */
(?<=(^|\s)\d*\.\d*)m

/* This needs to be modified to include negative numbers as the thing it is
looking for in addition to posative numbers that are before the m to replace
with a blank string */

[Thiago Macedo]

On Aug 25, 1:56 pm, "Smokey Grindel" <[e-mail]:

/* Look for numbers in a string that have a m behind them and replace the m
with a null string character or space */
(?<=(^|\s)\d*\.\d*)m

if is said that this works, simply by adding a minus sign optional
match before yours digits would work.

(?<=(^|\s)-?\d*\.\d*)m

Thiago

[jamil]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:56:54 -0400, "Smokey Grindel"
<no****@nospam.comwrote:

>Alright so I have a string... that can be anything like this then have a
number like 102.34m, yes there is a m behind it to say "this is money", no I
didn't design the spec thats just how data comes in... well I had a regex
that replaces all those m's in a string where there is a number before it
with no m... so its just the string with 102.34... well this worked fine
until we got negative money! so now when its -102.34m it still has the m...
here is my original regex replace string... any idea on how to change it so
that negative numbers work also? this regex seems to work ok now... (im not
great at regex's... this one took some thinking on my part to figure out so
im not even sure its entirely correct! but it seems to do what i want it
to)... any help would be GREAT! thanks!

/* Look for numbers in a string that have a m behind them and replace the m
with a null string character or space */
(?<=(^|\s)\d*\.\d*)m

/* This needs to be modified to include negative numbers as the thing it is
looking for in addition to posative numbers that are before the m to replace
with a blank string */

Try this:

^(?:|-)\d+(?:|\.\d+)m$

It matches the following test cases:

102.34m
-102.34m
100m
100.0m
-1m
-10.50m
10m
5m

Note the anchors I have added require a full match. If you want
partial matches (meaning leading and/or trailing additional characters
are okay), remove the anchors like this:

(?:|-)\d+(?:|\.\d+)m

[jamil]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:51:31 -0400, ja***@onepost.net wrote:

>Try this:

^(?:|-)\d+(?:|\.\d+)m$

Also, it appears you wish to capture the money amounts, so add another
set of parens around the whole thing:

^((?:|-)\d+(?:|\.\d+))m$