[osflash] RegExp question

[John Grden]

Man, yeah, that thing ROCKS - Thanks Antony!

On 6/7/07, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
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>  >> I just started working with RegExp's so, I'm totally hacking this.
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> I love this little program: http://www.regexbuddy.info
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> It'll make your life a whole lot easier – it will even explain every
> function of regex as you type it, or decompile a regex into a human readable
> form. I find it invaluable (as I do a lot of validation etc)
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> It's also got a testing bit where it'll highlight matches from a page of
> text, which is useful too.
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> *From:* osflash-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:osflash-bounces at osflash.org] *On
> Behalf Of *John Grden
> *Sent:* 07 June 2007 02:56
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> *Subject:* Re: [osflash] RegExp question
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> Sounds good to me!  What's \s?
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> yeah, basicall, that was it - forcing it to have a valid space between the
> 2
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> I just started working with RegExp's so, I'm totally hacking this.
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> On 6/6/07, *Darren Cook* <darren at dcook.org> wrote:
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> > 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[
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> ]\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;
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> > trace(reg.test("1969 21:00"));
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> 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+".
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> Darren
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