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Regular expressions
yep, converted to php, 1 line of code with preg_match($pattern, $line, $match_array) (a few more lines with the loop around it and the other pattern matches) my favorite bit, the echo at the end of the function that returns: .... cleaning .... 24396 records processed .... 1.1162s thx again... -
Regular expressions
thanks vbkris, with your help i worked it out. solution <script> //orginal string str1="5..... LASTNAME LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME MIDDLENAME NAME2 DR. 32 R" //remove excess whitespace str=str1.replace(/\s+/," ") TheNumber=str.replace(/^(\d+).*/,"$1")... -
Regular expressions
this is great ... almost! works for about 80%. the problem is the the name middle name and title pattern. - there can actually be 1,2 or even 3 names - the whitespace between the last of the names and the title varies (not always 10) i'm now removing all the excess whitespace, so the string... -
Regular expressions
trying to extract the fields as follows: 5 LASTNAME LASTNAME FISTNAME MIDDLENAME TITLE AGE LOCATION -
Regular expressions
having trouble with a regular expression. i have an ugly text file to parse that includes the following line 5..... LASTNAME LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME MIDDLENAME TITLE 32 R the 5..... the 1st character is always a 1 digit number, followed by 1 to 9 '.' the 32 is age, the R is a 1...
