Stewart Stremler wrote:
> begin quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:24:25AM -0600:
>> On 2/1/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Bob La Quey wrote:
>>>> Does the string 9][A occur anywhere other than embedded in the
>>>> string ^[0-9][A-Z] ?
>>> The '[0-9]' and '[A-Z]' are standard regex notations for character
>>> classes, respectively any one of the 10 digits, and any one of the 26
>>> cap-letters.
>> Assuming they were literals is just as good as assuming they're regex,
>> especially since Ralph indicated that the caret was literal, and not
>> the front-of-line indicator.
>
> Indeed. I admired BLQ's take on the question ("What? Oh. Why didn't I
> think of that?"), as it was the _simplest_ interpretation (and reduces
> the question to one of appropriate escaping).
>
> I used (!) to be a Formal Automata geek, so I tend to interpret things
> that look like regex as regex. As you saw.
I jumped in the same direction, (and seemingly owe rlq an apology) :-(
Nonetheless, your macro email is still appreciated - maybe I'll just
save that macro for when that problem arises for real.
..jim
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