[TriLUG] Regular Expression Help

[Nathan Conrad]

Hi,

Here is a POSIX-compatible regular expression:

^Re: [A-Z]{2,8}, [^ ]* [^ ]* [^ ]*$

It assumes that words are strings of non-spaces.

The carrot matches the begining of a line. [A-Z] means all characters
between A and Z. {2-8} repeats 2-8 times. The [^ ] is all characters
except spaces. And the dollarsign matches the end of a line.

-Nathan

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:41:15AM -0500, Tarus Balog wrote:
> Howdy.
> 
> I need a regular expression for the following:
> 
> The characters "Re: " followed by 2 to 8 capital letters, followed by a  
> comma and space ", " and then three random words, separated by spaces.
> 
> Such as:
> 
> Re: CEGRUJAV, finally the door
> Re: WPXPM, them and came
> Re: OIJ, what? what? what
> 
> -T
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