On 01/06/06, Merlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi there,

I do work on following regex:
^(.*)_a[0-9](.*).htm$

This should be valid for "test_a9393.htm", but not for "9393.htm" as
ther is no leading _a infront of the number.

Unfortunatelly this also works for the 9393.htm file. Can somebody give
me a hint why the regex also is true for text that does not start with
_a infront of the number?

Thank you for any help,

Merlin


Try this:

^(.*)(_a{1})(\d+).htm$

in your regex you are looking for any instance of _, a  OR a sequence of
numbers.

I think this will search for  zero or more characters, one instance of _a,
then one or more numbers, then .htm.




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