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Happy Monkey · 11-17-2010, 07:00 PM

I was using unix's regex (I tested using sed).

The ^ is to denote the beginning of the line.
the " *" is to include spaces. If you have tabs as well, you'd need [xy]*, where x is a space and y is a tab.
The [01-9]* catches zero or more digits. I had the leading zero because I wasn't sure whether zero was actually first in ASCII, so I included it separately from the range. It is first, so [0-9]* would work. To make sure you don't get blank lines, it probably should be [1-9][0-9]*. The first brackets are one digit, and the second are zero or more additional digits.
Then another " *" for trailing spaces.
And a \$ for the end of the line. The $ is the symbol, but I need to escape it with the backslash so it doesn't get parsed by my command line.

An updated version could be:

Code:

^[  ]*[1-9][0-9]*[  ]*\$

If the syntax is different in your app, the pattern is:

Code:

(beginning of line marker)[whitespace characters]*[1-9][0-9]*[whitespace characters]*(end of line marker)

11-17-2010, 07:00 PM	#150
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I was using unix's regex (I tested using sed). The ^ is to denote the beginning of the line. the " " is to include spaces. If you have tabs as well, you'd need [xy], where x is a space and y is a tab. The [01-9]* catches zero or more digits. I had the leading zero because I wasn't sure whether zero was actually first in ASCII, so I included it separately from the range. It is first, so [0-9]* would work. To make sure you don't get blank lines, it probably should be [1-9][0-9]. The first brackets are one digit, and the second are zero or more additional digits. Then another " " for trailing spaces. And a \$ for the end of the line. The $ is the symbol, but I need to escape it with the backslash so it doesn't get parsed by my command line. An updated version could be: Code: ^[ ][1-9][0-9][ ]\$ If the syntax is different in your app, the pattern is: Code: (beginning of line marker)[whitespace characters][1-9][0-9][whitespace characters](end of line marker) __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]