Regex a couple of questions

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Good day folks,
I appreciate this is an Acorn NG. But my questions though about Regex are
directly connected to the VRPC-DL upon which I do all my Email and
Newsgroup Reading and Writing... (NetFetch).

I've looked at Regex tutorials online and my brain slowly turns to mush...
So please, I need a few point of clarification.  :-)

In Regex is  .* a real catch all ?

Example: Freds Pillows.*   

Will that catch everything that follows Freds Pillows; As after a while 
spammers will add a little something after the usual moniker?


So if I have a Name.*  Will adding a space after the Name .* give a
different result.

Name.*   or Name .*
                ^

Thanks
Dave

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Dave Triffid

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    Re: Regex a couple of questions Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2026-03-09 17:44 +0100
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