Hello Robin, Sunday, August 29, 2004, 2:05:07 PM, you wrote:
> On Sun 29 August 2004, 16:09:31 +1000, Jurgen Haug wrote: >> thank you! that did the trick! So this \A:? thingy isn't just looking for a >> colon at the END? like actually it's :-* RE: and I thought that's the colon it's >> looking for. This stuff is voodoo. > The "\A" locks the pattern to the beginning of the text you are > searching, so "\A:?" matches zero or one colon at the beginning if the > text. If you then search for ":-\*" further down the pattern, it will be > looking for a second colon (because \A:? matches the first) followed by a > dash and an asterisk. ah, I guess I get it now (for this time). You mean, my mistake was to think 'hey I am giving him the :-* as a pattern, so I can forget about it, and after that I started looking for the colon, which came later :-* RE: <-- here, BUT regex couldn't care less about what *I* am thinking, since it will always look for the first colon, no matter what pattern I am throwing at it, since this \A thing tells him to do exactly that! right? -- Best regards, Jürgen :eu-flag3: :de-bw: "A duck walks into a drugstore and ask the clerk for chapstick. The clerk put the chapstick on the counter and says 'that will be $2' The duck replies 'Just put it on my bill'" Using The Bat! v2.12.03, Opera v7.54.3865 on Win.XP.5.1.2600.SP1 * PGP key available on request: send mail with subject 'PGP key request'
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