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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsMatching Character Ranges with Regex
8345 Gable 7238 Gable 2349 Table 8475 Cable 0994 Fable 1047 Zable
I'm able to match the above Strings with the following pattern - [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] ?[A-Z][a-z][a-z][a-z][a-z]
But isn't there a better way than this, or have I got it right? It seems a bit overkill :)
2 Answers
huckleberry
14,636 PointsWith what is taught and what we've learned up until the point of this video (which is what folks should be answering with imho ;) ) it seems to me it would be
[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] [A-Z]able
I'm taking the approach of least code possible to accomplish a full match of all given strings in the provided text thus no range notation for text that is identical as is the case with 'able'.
Just my double pennies is all.
Cheers,
Huck -
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsThanks! We haven't seen that syntax yet in this video. That's a better way of doing it, I think. I'll link it later if I spot it! :)