I hate regular expressions!

Arrrghhhh!

Sorry....

Hello! :-)

I have a strange long string of which I need to match a regex pattern. This is the string

_XMMLSS.CDcatname:if(nov06cd is not null,if(extended=1 and nov06cd.ra_ext_corr > 0,catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_ext_corr,nov06cd.dec_ext_corr),catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_pnt_corr,nov06cd.dec_pnt_corr)).max

and I want to get three groups:

_XMMLSS

CDcatname:if(nov06cd is not null,if(extended=1 and nov06cd.ra_ext_corr > 0,catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_ext_corr,nov06cd.dec_ext_corr),catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_pnt_corr,nov06cd.dec_pnt_corr))

max

I've witten this code:

import java.util.regex.*;

publicclass TestRegex{

publicstaticvoid main(String[] args){

String field ="_XMMLSS.CDcatname:if(nov06cd is not null,if(extended=1 and nov06cd.ra_ext_corr > 0,catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_ext_corr,nov06cd.dec_ext_corr),catname('XLSSCD',nov06cd.ra_pnt_corr,nov06cd.dec_pnt_corr)).max";

String regex ="^(.*?)\\.(.*)\\.(.*)$";

Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex);

String[] result = p.split(field);

}

}

which uses this pattern: "^(.*?)\\.(.*)\\.(.*)$". I'm sure it is right because I've tested it with Python and it worked as I expected... so... what's wrong? Why it doesn't split my string?

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,

Anhur

[1997 byte] By [Anhura] at [2007-11-27 3:51:14]