Re: regular expression
| From: | Peter Lind | Date: | Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:36:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: regular expression | ||
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On 1 June 2010 17:33, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 16:31 +0100, Richard Quadling wrote:
>
>> $re1 = '/^[a-z]++$/i';
>> $re2 = '/^[a-z ]++$/i';
>>
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>
> Why the double ++ in the expressions there? Surely one + would match the
> 1 or more characters that you need and the second one would just be
> surplus?
>
Equally important: why have three people already done this persons
homework. 5 minutes googling would have answered this ...
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