regular expression

[hugo]

I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse records
like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxTAGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the rest. I
want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest possible.

Thanks

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I would like a regular expression that can recognized 1 or more
segments which are variable length. Say each segment is of the form
TAGxxxx, where the number of x's is arbitrary. I want to parse
records like the following,

TAGxxx
TAGxxxxxTAGxx
TAGxxTAGxxxxxxTAGxxxxxxxx

and so on. (TAG(.*))+ finds the first TAG and then gobbles the
rest. I want to find as many TAG(.*)'s as possible, not the fewest
possible.

my @tags = /TAG.*?(?=TAG|\n)/g;

 

[Blaine Everingham]

Why don't you just use a split statement.... It woudl be faster then a rege
exp.