Re: Match

Hello,

Christian Brabandt wrote on 22.12.09:
> On Tue, December 22, 2009 10:35 am, epanda wrote:
> > I detect the first column of a csv file like that.
> >
> > ^\([^;]\+\);
> >
> >
> > I would like to search in the match string those which contains
> > spaces.

> ^\([^; ]*\)\s[^;]*;

Could you explain these regexes? I reckon that

^\([^;]\+\);

Means: at least once anything but a semicolon at the beginning of a line and
then a semicolon. (But why the grouping \(...\)?)

But in Christians enhancement ^\([^; ]*\)\s[^;]*; I am confused: i read it as:

^\([^; ]*\) One or more times a semicolon followed by a space
\s[^;]* and followed by another whitespace and anything but a semicolon
zero or more times
; and then a semicolon

I think this is not quite right...

jan

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