* Ron Newman <rnewman at thecia.net> [2003-02-11 12:42]:
> On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 12:23 PM, Gyepi SAM wrote:
> > I don't see how '*@*.aol.*' can match '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. How do you
> > account for the first '.' in the match expression?
>
> For that matter, can a regular expression validly begin with "*" at
> all? What does that mean?
>
> And why would you want to match a string of zero or more @ characters?
I took those to be glob-type expansions, not regexes, so '*' means 0 or
more characters, '.' is a literal ., and so on.
(darren)
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