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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