Re: Tricky regex question
- From: "Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:08:05 -0500
"Juan Singh" <js@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I need to split words from a sentence that are more than 2 letters. An
example sentence is:
This is "very" 'tricky'. I won't be able see it.
I came up with the following regex, but it breaks the word [won't] and I
only get the part that is before the single quote.
\b[a-zA-Z]{2,}+\b
My objective is to extract the following words from the example sentence
above.
This, very, tricky, won't, able
I'd split the string on whitespace (to get {This, is, "very", 'tricky'.,
I, won't, be, able, see, it.}) and then write a function which acts like
trim(), but rather than removing leading or trailing whitespace, it removes
leading or trailing punctuation. That'll give {This, is, very, tricky, I,
won't, be, able, see, it} which you can then walk through and eliminate all
2 char characters or less.
- Oliver
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