begin quoting Todd Walton as of Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:24:25AM -0600:
> On 2/1/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Bob La Quey wrote:
> >> Does the string 9][A occur anywhere other than embedded in the
> >> string ^[0-9][A-Z] ?
> >
> >The '[0-9]' and '[A-Z]' are standard regex notations for character
> >classes, respectively any one of the 10 digits, and any one of the 26
> >cap-letters.
>
> Assuming they were literals is just as good as assuming they're regex,
> especially since Ralph indicated that the caret was literal, and not
> the front-of-line indicator.
Indeed. I admired BLQ's take on the question ("What? Oh. Why didn't I
think of that?"), as it was the _simplest_ interpretation (and reduces
the question to one of appropriate escaping).
I used (!) to be a Formal Automata geek, so I tend to interpret things
that look like regex as regex. As you saw.
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Stewart Stremler
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