HI Tom,
Welcome to England (I presume)
> This seems very complicated. Did you look at the Ram:6 recipe on
> expressing AND, OR, and NOT in a regex? For example, to do
> /FOO/ && /BAR/ you need not write /FOO.*BAR|BAR.*FOO/ -- and in
> fact, should not, as it doesn't work properly on some pairs!
> For example, /CAN/ && /ANAL/ can't be written /CAN.*ANAL|ANAL.*CAN/
> of you expect to match "CANAL". Overlaps bite you. You really
> need /(?=.*CAN)(?=.*ANAL)/ instead, which permits multiple assertions.
> Please check out the recipe I'm talking about.
>
> --tom, from a strange place
I will start by admiting I dont have the RAM. I was brainstorming ideas (my
day job involves a lot of brainstorming) and trying to think of new/better ways
to do things. I am more interested in concepts than syntax.
Richard
