On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:45:19 -0500, Ronald J Kimball wrote: >Conjunction in a regex has higher precedence than alternation, so your regex is >parsed as:
>/(?:^Date:\s+Mon)|(?:Tue)|(?:Wed)|(?:Thu)|(?:Fri)|(?:Sat)|(?:Sun,\s+(\d\d?))/ >You need to put parens around the matching of the days. Thank you, I get it. Except that now I don't see why there is '?:' in front of each alternation in the expanded regex. Is this an instance of the '? ... :' operator ? Could you bring me light pls.
