James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
> Looks like Rob beat me to the draw this time
"Go ahead. Make my day!"
> but I thought I would add one little tidbit.
>
> On Monday, October 13, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> > if ( /(\d+)\s+\(\d+\)/ ) {
>
> I think at least anchoring the pattern to the front of the line is a
> good idea, just so we don't match some arbitrary junk in the middle of
> one of those text lines. I would use:
>
> /^(\d+)\s+\(\d+\)/
>
> They probably both work exactly the same, but I prefer to anchor when I
> can just to reduce my chances for error.
I'd agree, especially since my code is stripping enclosing
whitespace. But we still don't know exactly what these records
look like!.
/R
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