Hi Doug,

Replying to a message of Doug Nazar to Mike Burgett:

 MB>> Exactly, except that I found that I could skip the '*'s completely
 MB>> and get the results I wanted. (since I don't care where the
 MB>> match occured, unless the expression was anchored to one end or
 MB>> the other, which still doesn't require the '*' unless I care
 MB>> about something later in the expression like  'zee.*dat$'

 DN> Hmmm.... sounds like you could just use strstr() which is ANSI
 DN> compliant . Regular expressions are overkill for finding a simple
 DN> string in another.

I don't know that the string will always be so simple though. If I wanted
to find files matching a _filemask_ of zee??11?.t* for example, I could do
it with (I think :) a regex of zee..11.\.t.* which would be a bear to do
without the regex code.  I was just trying some simple tests to see that
the code was working. 

 MB>> I missed the _0_ or more in the regex explanation until the next
 MB>> morning, after I'd sent the mail, when it jumped out and fairly bit
 MB>> me.... 

 DN> Ain't that always the case. When I get stumped I usually that the dog
 DN> for a walk or something. I usually have the answer by the time I get
 DN> back to the computer.

The subconscious mind is a wonderful thing, solves most of the really hard
problems for me. 

Thanks,
Mike

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