On Monday 16 May 2005 22:53, Al wrote: > What pattern can I use to match ONLY single occurrences of a character in a > string. > > e.g., "Some text @ and some mo@@re and mor@e, etc @@@. Use the following: /(^@)(@{1})(^@)/ This way you'll be sure the regexp will match only single occurences ot hte '@' symbol. Please take in mind that if you have this symbol in the beginning of the string or at the end - you have to modify this. > > I only want the two occurrences with a single occurrence of "@". > > @{1} doesn't work; there are 4 matches. > > Thanks.... -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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