Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 02:32:38 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: regex question.... Message-ID: <20101205023238.0ffcef3e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20101205012430.GA29153@thought.org> References: <20101205002602.GA27499@thought.org> <AANLkTinXsSHj4kLha9SgR4T0Rn7TvH1cKmZ-pYe%2BgC-k@mail.gmail.com> <20101205012430.GA29153@thought.org>
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On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:24:30 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > So I just missed the "*"? Yes. In regex, * means "any amount of", if I remember correctly. So you don't have to specify precisely how many numbers there are. How many lights? :-) > Didn't need to escape the [ or ] ? No, as you want them in their regex meaning, "in the range of", not literal [ and ]. > PS: See, this is why I keep cheatsheets. ;) That's the fat green book on my shelf. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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