Regex driving me crazy...

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin <pmaupin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, my eyes completely missed your one-liner, so my criticism about
> not posting a solution was unwarranted.  I don't think you and I read
> the problem the same way (which is probably why I didn't notice your
> solution -- because it wasn't solving the problem I thought I saw).

No worries.

> When I saw "And I am interested in the string that appears in the
> third column, which changes as the test runs and then completes" I
> assumed that, not only could that string change, but so could the one
> before it.

If that's the case, my solution won't work right.

> I guess my base assumption that anything with words in it could
> change.  I was looking at the OP's attempt at a solution, and he
> obviously felt he needed to see two or more spaces as an item
> delimiter.

If the requirement is indeed two or more spaces as a delimiter with
spaces allowed in any field, then a regular expression split is
probably the best solution.

-- 
Grant