On Fri, 9 May 1997 15:49:40 -0500 (CDT),
dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com (David W. Tamkin) wrote:
A while back -- at least a year if not longer -- somebody asked how to see
if a regexp is matched in the first six lines of the body. I suggested the
following, where "(^.*)?" appears 6 - 1 = 5 times:
:0B
* $ ^^.*(^.*)?(^.*)?(^.*)?(^.*)?(^.*)?$pattern
action
Stephen, is there any chance of getting the regexp engine to
understand braces? Then you could just write $ ^^.*(^.*){,29}$pattern
They're not a construct you need very often but when you do, they can
save a lot of frustration.
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