Re: Regular expressions

[Martin Schultz <martin.schultz(at)dkrz.de>]

"Liam E. Gumley" wrote:
> 
> James Tappin wrote:
> >
> > Does there exist a routine for regular expression matching in IDL?
> >
> > I'm thinking of something along the lines of an extended STR_SEP that could
> > (say) separate a string into components separated by 0 or 1 commas and an
> > arbitrary number of spaces.
> >
> > I could do it by spawning a perl script but that's not too pretty and I
> > can't see an _easy_ way to do it natively.
> 
> The STREGEX function was introduced in IDL 5.3:
> 
> [...]

One of the VERY good reasons why version 4.xx i snot enough for me at
least ;-)

CHeers,
Martin

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