On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:17:18 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:42:34 Robert Bridge wrote:
>
> > Or use a wildcard based match.
> >
> > name????stat.text works, as would name*stat.text
> 
> <pedantic>
> name0[01][0-9]{2}stat.text
> </pedantic>
> 
> would be better still
> 

<nitpick>
more typing...
</nitpick>

Depends on the measure, most times I have seen this kind of thing, the
shorter pattern I had would have been "good enough". YMMV though, and I
won't try to argue that yours is more precise.

RobbieAB

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