Regular expressions help
John Hazen
invalid at hazen.net
Wed Feb 25 19:30:32 EST 2004
> Mike Hearne wrote on 24 Feb 2004 10:54:45 -0800:
>
> > Given the following three lines:
> >
> > name fredgeorge
> > name georgeharry
> > name george
> >
> > I'm trying to find a regular expression that matches only the third
> > one.
* Andrei <fake at fake.net> [2004-02-24 12:34]:
> It's pretty easy:
>
> "name george$"
>
> "$" means end of string
And if you'd also prefer not to match:
name name george
Then, you could match for:
"^name george$"
"^" means the beginning of the string.
-John
< my_first_name AT my_last_name DOT net >
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