Regex question

31 Dec 2006 7:19 AM

Paulers

I have been googling for about an hour now looking for an example of
how to locate multiple occurrences of a regular expression and
iterate through the matches to extract each one. I need to extract all
occurrences of \d{15} out of a string that will also include carrige
returns, white spaces and other possible characters in random orders.
All help is greatly appreciated
Thanks!

31 Dec 2006 8:32 AM

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"Paulers" <SuperG***@gmail.com> wrote in news:1167549590.725794.57370

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> I have been googling for about an hour now looking for an example of
> how to locate multiple occurrences of a regular expression and
> iterate through the matches to extract each one. I need to extract all
> occurrences of \d{15} out of a string that will also include carrige
> returns, white spaces and other possible characters in random orders.
> All help is greatly appreciated

try this pattern: \\d\{15\} (turn on the ignore whitespace option)

The regex class has a "Matches" collection which allows you to iterate
through it.

31 Dec 2006 8:36 AM

Just Me

Like to have a go at my question spamcatcher, its a two down from this one

Thanks - JustMe

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>> I have been googling for about an hour now looking for an example of
>> how to locate multiple occurrences of a regular expression and
>> iterate through the matches to extract each one. I need to extract all
>> occurrences of \d{15} out of a string that will also include carrige
>> returns, white spaces and other possible characters in random orders.
>> All help is greatly appreciated
>
>
> try this pattern: \\d\{15\} (turn on the ignore whitespace option)
>
> The regex class has a "Matches" collection which allows you to iterate
> through it.
>

31 Dec 2006 9:15 AM

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> Like to have a go at my question spamcatcher, its a two down from this
> one

Sure, just took a look at it... I'm hardly a pro at Regular Expressions,
but I prefer using regex rather than manually parsing with if loops ;-)

31 Dec 2006 7:49 PM

Paulers

so this expression would match multiple instances of 15 digits in a
string? Ill give it a try. thanks!
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> "Paulers" <SuperG***@gmail.com> wrote in news:1167549590.725794.57370
> @a3g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:
>
> > I have been googling for about an hour now looking for an example of
> > how to locate multiple occurrences of a regular expression and
> > iterate through the matches to extract each one. I need to extract all
> > occurrences of \d{15} out of a string that will also include carrige
> > returns, white spaces and other possible characters in random orders.
> > All help is greatly appreciated
>
>
> try this pattern: \\d\{15\} (turn on the ignore whitespace option)
>
> The regex class has a "Matches" collection which allows you to iterate
> through it.