Regex help
Andy Armstrong
andy at hexten.net
Fri Apr 20 16:41:58 BST 2012
On 20 Apr 2012, at 16:29, Simon Wistow wrote:
> ^
> (?::(\w+) \s+)? # optional label
> ([A-Za-z]+) \s+ # opcode
> ([^,\s]+) (?:, \s+ # operand
> ([^,\s]+))* \s* # optional second opcode
You don't get a distinct capture for each application of the pattern - so the third operand overwrites the second. Maybe put the * inside the parens and then parse the list of operands in a second step?
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Andy Armstrong, Hexten
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