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From: cjosta@tasu77.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler)
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Subject: WANTED: Description of V8 regular expressions
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Date: 23 Mar 89 11:58:17 GMT
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Does anyone have a description of the syntax for V8 regular expressions.
I am trying to use regular expressions in perl, but the man page does not
give a complete description of R.E., it just says that they are the same
as the V8 R.E.

Specifically, I am looking for a way to match X occurances of a
character.  I read the 'ed' manual, and it said to use the '\{', '\}'
syntax, but I tried this in perl and it didn't work.  i.e. I did
's/d\{3\}/dog/;' to change 'ddd' into 'dog' (please don't tell me I can
just do 's/ddd/dog/;' !!).

I assume V8 uses a different syntax (or doesn't have this functionality).
If anyone has a complete description of the V8 R.E. I would appreciate it
if you could send it to me.  Thanks in advance.
Jonathan Sweedler  ===  National Semiconductor Israel
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