regex question

[Dan Shoop]

At 2:54 PM -0700 4/5/07, Ian Ward Comfort wrote:
>On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:
>>At 2:44 PM -0400 4/5/07, János wrote:
>>>Milo and Kreme gave some good tips, so for now I go with
>>>
>>>>>"^[ACNS][0-9]{2}-[0-9]{1,6}$"
>>
>>If your lib supports $, and I think that should 
>>be "^[ACNS][0-9]{2}-[0-9]{1,6}.*$" is you want 
>>to accept lines with stuff at the ends.
>
>What's the point of the upper bound on final 
>digits if you're going to accept any trailing 
>string with .*$ anyway?

I'm not sure if he is, but otherwise, yeah, you'd be right.

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-dhan

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