Re: [xsl] How to split an RegEx into several lines for readability?

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Rashmi.

So is there something more elegant than using concat() ?


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On 4/29/07, Rashmi Rubdi <rashmi.sub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dimitre,
>
> I've just begun to read a book on Regular Expressions and in the book
> they strongly discourage unintended white spaces.
>
> Here's an excerpt "...Placing unintended white spaces in a regular
> expression can radically alter the meaning of the regular expression
> and can turn what ought to be matches into nonmatches, and vice versa.
> When creating regular expression patterns, you need to be meticulous
> about handling whitespace..." taken from Beginning Regular Expressions
> by Andrew Watt.
>
> -Regards
> Rashmi
>
> On 4/29/07, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As I am an absolute RegEx beginner, please excuse me if this is a
> > trivial question.
> >
> >
> > At the moment I am playing with:
> >
> >  <xsl:analyze-string select="$vstrInput"
> > regex='([\s]*)(("[^"\\]*((\\.[^"\\]*)*"))|((([-]?[0-9]+)?\.)?[-]?[0-9]+([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?
> > ))(.*)$' flags="m">
> >
> >
> > which should match only the first quoted-string or number in the
> > string-argument.
> >
> > Is there any way I can split this RegEx on separate lines and/or add
> > whitespace so that it would be more readable?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Dimitre Novatchev