On 6/1/06, Eric Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry if I've got brain lock on this, but is it possible to match a
substring like

match wildmenu ;\(directory\)\{3,};

such that it will match three or more substring chars of the pattern
to match "dir" as well as "directory"?  (I know the above format isn't
this.)  I know I could do it if I could use an expression, but syntax
highlighting doesn't allow that, so I'm wondering if I can do it with
regex alone.


Enclose "ectory" in another group that matches zero or one times.  The
"\v" enables "very magic" mode, and the "%()"  construct causes the
group to not be counted as a sub-expression:

\v(dir%(ectory)?)

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