Hello Mike!

Sunday August 11 1996 07:33, Mike Burgett wrote to Doug Nazar:

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

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

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.... 

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

Doug

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