On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David W. Tamkin wrote:
| > * ^Subject: (join|subscribe) list(\>|)
| > What is your opinion of this expression?
Era replied, in part,
| The expression (\>|) looks like it used to be (\>.*|)$ but got
| "improved" somewhere along the way ... (\>.*)?$ might be more readable
| if you want that.
If it's the last part of the regular expression, (\>.*)?$ is just a
long way of saying \> (remember that \< and \> can match newlines).
I left the $ dollar sign off the original. What I meant was (\>|$)
If I gather what you're saying, a simple \> is sufficient?
Is it a good idea to replace white spaces with [ ] with a tab inside?
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