regex making my head spin...

[jcarmody]

Perhaps this is more readable?  At least it's more clear that there are multiple searches being performed.

[Darin.K]

I am sure the logic of the regex is sound, and it is too early on the West Coast to wrap my head around it anyway.  What I find makes them a bit more readable (and it could just be me) is the use of character classes:

I would slightly modify the regex as follows:

((: *)*[\d ]{0,1}(1(\D*)6))|(1( *\w*\s\d* *: *)6)

\d is digit [0-9]

\D is everything except [0-9]

\w is a word character

\s is whitespace

[smercurio_fc]

I can't be sure, but I think you guys are cursing at each other.

[jcarmody]

It gets more readable the longer I look at it. 

[GregFreeman]

Hate to break it to you guys, but I decided to go with string parsing rather than regexp. This is actually for C++ not LabVIEW but I figured for something so generic, this would be a good place to ask. Solutions come quickly here! Either way, the solutions were interesting, well thought out, and well explained. Kudos to come when I have some free time.

[Darin.K]

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@for(imstuck) wrote:

Hate to break it to you guys, but I decided to go with string parsing rather than regexp.

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\w[a-z@#]+ You!     

[jcarmody]

I posted my last version, along with an explanation of its regexp, over here.