Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>The important part of that, for our purpose, is the last sentence,
>>>because it means that within a [] pair, a \ is just a \, a . is just a
>>>., a psi is just a psi[1]. So not only is it impossible to escape the
>>>dot within a bracket expression but, fortunately, we don't need to.
>>>
>>>So, the above expression can be read as thus:
>>>
>>>^\. Match anything which begins with a literal .
>>>( followed by EITHER
>>>[^.] a character which is not a literal .
>>>|\.. OR a second literal . followed by ANY character
>>>) (end of the EITHER-OR part)
>>>.* followed by ANY ZERO OR MORE additional characters
>>>$ and then ends.
>>
>>Great. And now, put that into the manual :-)
>
>
> With a warning that it won't match anything, because all filenames begin with
> a / or a drive letter :-)
......Right. ;) Forgot that.
And next time I'll have to make my references less subtle. The world
will always welcome regexes, you know. ;)
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