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| From | Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> |
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| Subject | Re: Regex a couple of questions |
| Date | Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:44:01 +0100 |
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In message <20260309101645.191086c4@wibble.sysadmininc.com>
Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:06:38 +0000 (GMT)
> Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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 .*
> .* is a greedy match for the given character, where . means any
> character then yes, it should match until the end. If you added a space
> then there would need to be a space in your string to match, but really
> you should be using \s+ to catch one or more white spaces.
> You can use one of the many regex checkers because not all regex
> engines are built equal. I quite like https://regex101.com/ due to its
> group highlighting.
You can do Regex tests with the very good software from Martin Avison
RegExTest.
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/RegExTest.htm
--
Jean-Michel
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Regex a couple of questions Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2026-03-09 09:06 +0000
Re: Regex a couple of questions Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> - 2026-03-09 10:16 -0500
Re: Regex a couple of questions Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2026-03-09 17:44 +0100
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