On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David Wolfskill wrote:
>>There is an admin here who suggested I
>>modify the labelstr. Will this work?
>
>>- you should modify
>>labelstr to "$$$$$[0-9][0-9][0-9]"
>
>Changing the labelstr may be useful.
>
>But since it's a (Perl) regex, I'd be rather surprised if a string with
>non-terminating "$" characters would be useful for anything: that
>character is used to provide an "anchor" for the right-hand side of the
>string.
It looks to me like the admin who suggested that is an SQL guru.
$ is a wildcard character for Oracle, I think.
Replace that chain of pattern with the simpler perl pattern:
".....\d\d\d"
"." means any one character, "\d" means any digit.
A safer pattern, the one I use, is "DailySet1\d\d".
--
Joi Ellis
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