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Regular Expression - please help .. URGENT !

dear experts,

can anybody give me the regular expression for "//// *////" (i.e., four forward slashes, followed by any number of s and followed by four forward slashes). its urgent .. please help me as soon as possible. also, give me some links to know more about the regular expressions.

thanks in advance.

cmallela

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please note that i want it in java in the function String.replaceAll(regex,string). thanks

CEHJ

"//////// *////////"

CEHJ

You were right first time - (sorry was thinking backslash)

"//// *////"

CEHJ

You want to replace what by what?

Gunt

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/

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CEHJ

If you mean you want to surround the tags with 4 forward slashes then try

s = s.replaceAll("( +)", "////$1////");

General RE info:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/

cmallela

ASKER

thanks everybody for very quick replies. i didnt realize that i didnt put the brackets (very dumb huh!)...

thanks so much.

Mick Barry

CEHJ

>>please note that i want it in java in the function String.replaceAll(regex,string). thanks

cmallela, can you tell me how that accepted answer answers the question?

cmallela

ASKER

well, my question was -

>> can anybody give me the REGULAR EXPRESSION for "//// *////" ,

However, I just mentioned that I want that particular regex in the function String.replaceAll .. but after all I wanted only the regex. However, I wanted to split the points but its such a easy question (in fact I was dumb), that I had to just select one answer and thus I selected that answer.

Sorry if that offended you but really appreciate your input on this.

Thanks.

CEHJ

>>However, I wanted to split the points

Well you could have done, and in fact you can now still..!