Regular Expression help

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1

I have a string composed of three parts. 1) a number, could be 1, 2, 3, 4 or more digits. 2) the word pending 3) and then a date in this format: year,month,day,hour,minute,second

I would like to extract each in a variable.

Examples:

7pending20110721170832 504pending20110720110107

2

I have a string composed of three parts.

  1. a number, could be 1, 2, 3, 4 or more digits.
  2. the word pending
  3. and then a date in this format: year,month,day,hour,minute,second

I would like to extract each in a variable.

Examples:

7pending20110721170832 504pending20110720110107

This is a good place to play

http://rubular.com/

(\d) => capture a single digit

(\w) => capture a single letter

3

Very easy :slight_smile:

(\d+)(\w+)(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2}

)(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})

Tests…

http://www.gethifi.com/tools/regex

http://nregex.com/nregex/default.aspx

http://regexpal.com/