Timeline for Regex - Match half of the strings
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| Feb 20, 2014 at 15:32 | vote | accept | Cruncher | ||
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:21 | answer | added | Justin | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:18 | answer | added | xem | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | Kendall Frey | @JanDvorak Please don't say that \W matches uppercase letters. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | Tim Seguine | @JanDvorak I know, that is exactly my point. You are matching too many one character strings. There are 62, and you match 57 of them. It does it that way in PCRE at least IIRC. Is there a dialect in which it doesn't? If there is, then I concede defeat. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:05 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @TimSeguine I mean, if \w matches both lowercase and uppercase | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:05 | answer | added | xem | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | Tim Seguine | @JanDvorak The problem doesn't say anything about case insensitivity | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:02 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @TimSeguine if it's case insensitive, then A-Z it is. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:02 | comment | added | Tim Seguine | @JanDvorak but doesn't \w match all word characters? | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:01 | answer | added | Tim Seguine | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @Cruncher the same as above. If it starts with lowercase or a low digit, match. Otherwise, don't. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 21:00 | comment | added | Cruncher | @JanDvorak I don't see how. Can you explain? | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:56 | comment | added | Tim Seguine | oh yeah sorry, it works for one character but gets worse and worse after that. If i remove the star and the $ though, it should work. It takes then half of all one character strings and all of the other strings that start with one of those characters. | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:56 | comment | added | John Dvorak | /^[\w0-4]/ works, doesn't it? | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:55 | comment | added | Cruncher | @TimSeguine No, if strings could have only uppercase, or only lower case it would. But since most strings have a combination of both, that misses most strings | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:53 | comment | added | Tim Seguine | /^[A-Z0-4]*$/ works, doesn't it? | |
| Jan 16, 2014 at 20:49 | history | asked | Cruncher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |