On Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:39:17 -0500 (CDT), dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com
(David W. Tamkin) said:
Perhaps Mike would get better results if he escaped all the other periods
in the file, which apparently are supposed to match only literal periods:
u1(_at_)alpha\(_dot_)beta\(_dot_)gamma
u2(_at_)delta\(_dot_)epsilon
u3(_at_)foo\(_dot_)bar\(_dot_)baz
u4(_at_)plugh\(_dot_)plover
u5(_at_)xyzzy\(_dot_)com
u6(_at_)frobozz\(_dot_)magic-wells\(_dot_)com
mrose.stsci\.edu
The problem I'm trying to solve is how to have one regexp per
line, with an unlimited number of lines in the file.
Escaping the periods defers the problem, and works for the particualr
example I cited, but doesn't handle the more general problem.
Mike