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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Regular expressions vs. file name generation  (Was: Re: Pipes)
Message-ID: <12518@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Jun 90 06:53:38 GMT
References: <2533@zipeecs.umich.edu> <136735@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <12391@cbmvax.commodore.com> <36467@sequent.UUCP> <5806@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5806@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Fine. How about "All files matching a legal C format statement?"
>
>%(|(|-)(*|#(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)))(|.(*|#(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)))(|l)(d|f|o|g|x|c)

	You could make that a lot smaller using the 2.0 character classes...
( [0-9], etc.)

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