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In article <5bbe1da83fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <5bbe02d86ddave@triffid.co.uk>,
>    Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
> > Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my soggy
> > brain. 
> > :-(

> > I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I have a
> > number of them Regex active with   .*

> > "Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring
> > space.*) and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring
> > nospace.*).

> > Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects of
> > those two different .* positions?

> 'string.*' will match 'string x' and 'stringx'
> 'string<blank>.*' will match 'string x' but not 'stringx'

> This question has prompted me to add to my website a RegExTest program
> I wrote years ago, but it never got formally released. Note that it is
> Beta, may have some bugs, but could be useful. It is available from:

>     http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/
>     https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

> Martin

Thanks for that info Martin, appreciated.

Dave

But...
Problem... When I go to your site, with either NetSurf (RISC OS side) or
Firefox (Windows side) I get an error message when I click the !RegExTest
download link:

"Avisoft Page Error.
Sorry ... we could not find that page!"

"Please click  'home' to return to the Avisoft home page."

 "Home" being a link, but it does nothing in both browsers.

?

Dave

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Dave Triffid