On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 10:03:21 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aol.com> wrote:
> >"[^abc]" matches any string containing a character >other than a, b, or c. It matches "wombat". However, >"^[^abc]*$" matches strings containing no character >other than a, b, or c. It does not match "wombat". Was that something you said, or something you're quoting from the manual? I'm not sure. In any case, "[^abc]" does not match "wombat". It matches only a single character of a string. So, it might match the "w" in "wombat", or the "o", or the "m", or the "t", depending on other details of the input string being processed, and the application doing the processing. I agree with your comment (which I omitted from my quote) that the DFSORT books should not try to explain reg-ex processing, unless they have written their own processor instead of reusing someone else's. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
