On 16 Jan 2014 10:03, "Marcus Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in > > > maybe N[(.N)+] would be clearer. > > all of (.N)+ is optional > but when it's present it can be .N or .N.N or .N.N.N etc...
Yeah, that's a good idea. Simply switching to * might encourage the idea it's a regex, when it's more the kind of pseudo grammar people use to describe command line parameters. Cheers, Nick. >
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