On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Ron Newman wrote:
> 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?
Putting the .sig before the -- :
regular, adj.
UNIX (Of an expression) irregular; convoluted.
One of the many AUTO-ANTONYMS in the DP lexicon. Regular expressions
are ideal if you want to grep (search) for strings that contain
anagrams of "[]\/*()-!~", end with a period, but do not start with a
caret.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
Heh. How would you match that pattern?
Do we even want to know?
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bandwidth, n.
1 (During the big band era) between fifty and sixty feet, depending on
the orientation of Count Basie's piano.
2 (Of a computer bus) an upper limit to the error-transfer rate.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
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