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Re: regex puzzle

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From Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject Re: regex puzzle
Date Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:11:04 -0700
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On 4/9/2014 15:57, Roedy Green wrote:
> Is there a way within a regex to find strings of the from:
>
> 1 .. 20?
>
> For reasons hard to explain I don't want to capture then check outside
> the regex.
>

So does 1 .. 20 mean 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 
or 1 .. 20?

1 .. 20  ^\d+ \.\. \d+$

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Knute Johnson

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regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-09 15:57 -0700
  Re: regex puzzle Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-04-09 16:11 -0700
    Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-09 16:14 -0700
      Re: regex puzzle Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-09 16:24 -0700
        Re: regex puzzle Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-04-09 18:24 -0700
        Re: regex puzzle Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-04-11 21:06 -0400
    Re: regex puzzle markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-04-09 19:07 -0700
      Re: regex puzzle Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-04-11 01:56 -0700

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