Re: Help with regexp

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to find the regexp that could match on these:
> 
> "=>foo"
> "=>foo:bar"
> "=>foo:bar:baz"
> 
> The regexp must match on all of these strings. The string can't
> be deeper than 3 levels (like latest example) and each component
> may have spaces.
> 
> How can I match this ?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 	Xavier


If you don't want to pick out the components using \1 etc, then

=>\([a-z ]+:\)\{0,2\}[a-z ]+

should work

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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