On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 07:33 pm, Peter Otten wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 07:57 pm, Peter Otten wrote: >> >>> I tried Tim's example >>> >>> $ seq 5 | grep '1*' >>> 1 >>> 2 >>> 3 >>> 4 >>> 5 >>> $ >> >> I don't understand this. What on earth is grep matching? How does "4" >> match "1*"? > > Look for zero or more "1".
Doh! Oh the shame, I knew that. Somehow I tangled myself in a knot, thinking that it had to be 1 *followed by* zero or more characters. But of course it's not a glob, it's a regex. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
