[H-GEN] REGEX pattern required

[Russell Stuart]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 13:42, Byron Ellacott wrote:
> The three groups are (.*?), ([0-9]+) and ([^0-9]*).  The first matches 
> as few characters as necessary to pad the expression out -- the ? 
> modifier makes the * modifier non-greedy.  The second matches one or 
> more digits.  The third expression requires that everything after the 
> digit sequence be non-digits, that is, the digit sequence must match the 
> right-most digit sequence.
> 
> If you're using a different regex engine, you will need this adjusted to 
> suit.

And just to refine it a bit further, the regex above will sort
of work with PHP's preg_match(), where "sort of" means the array
returned will have 4 elements - not the three Gary asked for.
But its probably close enough - just ignore the first element.

Gary's question originally asked for a regex to feed to
preg_split().  There is no regex you can pass to preg_split()
that returns what Gary wanted.