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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