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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting a Regex into plain text
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Warren Liddell wrote:
> is there any pkg avilable that'll convert a regex into plain txt ?

No.  Most regular expressions cannot be expressed as finite plain text strings,
that is why regex is used in the first place.

> Presently i dont care if its windows based or FreeBSD based

Hmm.

-- 
-Chuck