Hi Doug,

Replying to a message of Doug Nazar to Mike Burgett:

 MB>> struct TestRegEx *temp;
 MB>> count = 0;
 MB>> while(temp = testmask[count++])
 MB>> {
 MB>>   if (regexec(&(testmask[count]->expr), checkstring, 0, 0) == 0);
 MB>>     break
 MB>> }

 DN> I'm hoping you typed this in by hand . Unless I'm missing something
 DN> in your code, you're always skipping the first regex_t. You're also
 DN> missing the last parameter of the regexec() call.

 Yep, I did.  (The 'if' statment should have used temp->expr anyway...)


 DN> Ok, you really need to read up on regular expressions . The '*'
 DN> modifier means to match 0 or more of the preceeding character. Hence,
 DN> 'zee*' will match 'ze' and 'zeeeeee'. 'ab*' is matching the 'a' in
 DN> 'dat'. 'j*' will match anything.

 DN> You probably want 'zee.*' and 'ab.*'. Here is a sample util I just
 DN> whipped up.

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

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

[... nice example deleted ...]

Thanks,
Mike

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