[osflash] RegExp question

John Grden neoriley at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 21:56:08 EDT 2007


Sounds good to me!  What's \s?

yeah, basicall, that was it - forcing it to have a valid space between the 2

I just started working with RegExp's so, I'm totally hacking this.

On 6/6/07, Darren Cook <darren at dcook.org> wrote:
>
> > it's supposed to catch a "yy hh:mm" string, but when I pass 4 digit
> > year, it
> > still says true.  It also optionally allows for 12hr clock
> values  (hence
> > the alternation with the am/pm)
> >
> > var reg:RegExp = /^\b(\d{2})\b[
> >
> ]\b(?:(?:0?[1-9]|1[012])(?:[.:][0-5]\d){1,2}(?:\D?[ap][m]))|(?:[01]*\d|2[0-3])\b[.:]\b[0-5]\d\b$/i;
> >
> > trace(reg.test("1969 21:00"));
>
> I've always used "\s*" the way you are using "\b". But I think you
> always want one whitespace character between year and time? Is that what
> the \b[ ] thing is doing? How about replacing "^\b(\d{2})\b[ ]\b" with
> "^\s*(\d{2})\s+".
>
> Darren
>
>
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