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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Regular expressions vs. file name generation  (Was: Re: Pipes)
Message-ID: <5815@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 10 Jun 90 13:46:22 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <12518@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup) writes:
> 	You could make that a lot smaller using the 2.0 character classes...
> ( [0-9], etc.)

I wasn't aware that this was comp.sys.amiga.tech.2.0. Hardly anyone has 2.0.
A few of us have 1.4 beta. You can't even assume that everyone has 1.3. On
occasion I have had to kick up 1.1 to run old software (luckily, I never had
to deal with 1.0 or .98).
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