Regular Expressions help

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Mon Dec 9 22:20:56 EST 2002


Joel Pearson wrote:

> Just say I have this data “<option value=IMD> (IMDEX LIMITED) IMD”, 
> normally what happen is it pulls out IMB and IMDEX LIMITED.
>
What's the thing after the brackets? If it's always a short string, and 
never has brackets, you might want to try:

"/value=(.{3})> \((.+)\)[^)]+$/"

That is, match everything from the first bracket after the 
angle-bracket, to the last bracket before the end of the line.

HTH





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