david.goldbe...@verizon.net (Dave Goldberg) writes: >> Anyway, searching the database seems to turn up many false positives. I >> am quite familiar with regular expressions from Perl hacking and >> grepping, so I'm pretty sure I'm not making a mistake. Using >> bbdb-search-name (or bbdb or b in the BBDB buffer) returns the correct >> match and at least one false positive, every time. For example, >> searching for Jo* returns (minus the domain names, which are either >> otago dot ac dot nz or gmail dot com): > >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Jeremiah Deng >> mail: jeremiah.deng@ > >> Jenny Rock >> mail: jennifer.rock@ > >> John Williams >> mail: john.williams@, johnfrombluff@ >> ---------------------------------------------------- > > Those are not false positives. You want to search for Jo followed by > whatever, but you are actually searching for J followed by zero or > more o's so everything with a J matches. How stupid of me. Thanks Dave :-)
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