RE: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles

  • From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:48:12 -0400

Hi,
I'm misusing the vertical bar. I thought it created an or condition. 

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Bauer
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:36 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Regular Expression Question: How To Search For Section Titles

You're including `|' in your last character class, not matching uppercase 
letters or lowercase letters or digits. This means something like `This is a
test|' will match, which, of course, is fine if that's what you're intending. :)

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^[A-Z].+[A-Za-z0-9]$
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:42:55 -0400, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi,
> How would you construct a regular expression that looks for the first letter 
> of any line in upper case followed by the rest of the line as long as it ends 
> with a letter or number?  Would it be something like this?
> ^[A-Z].*[A-Z|a-z|1-9]$
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim
> 
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