[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/28/2005 04:13:38 PM:

> On 28 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Tom. I agree, but not an option at this time - other parts of 
the 
> > design require this to be a regex.
> 
> It is pretty easy to do with two regexps, one to check the length and 
> another to see if there is a double &.  Would that work?  I don't know 
> off hand how to do it with a single regexp.
> 
> If the design requires that every possible condition be checked with a 
> single regexp then I would say, no offense intended, that the design is 
> faulty.  Regexps are good tools but are not universal for all possible 
> conditions one might want to test.

Thanks Tom and Richard. 

No offense taken. The design isn't mine, I am "plugging in" to another 
system that expects a regex.

I think I may have to push back on this one :)

Kirk

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