On Mon, 20 Oct 97 02:39:37 -0400, Timothy J Luoma
<luomat+procmail(_at_)luomat(_dot_)peak(_dot_)org> wrote:
(majordomo|listless|mail(2|3|5|6)?)\.netcom\.com
Do I need the | between the 2356 or can I write it like this:
(majordomo|listless|mail[2356]?)\.netcom\.com
By happy coincindence, both constructs work in this case, where the
alternate strings are one character long. If the distinction between
'one string|another string' and '[ab]' is not clear to you, play
around with egrep. (Or try the "Hip Owls" book -- haven't read it
myself, but I've seen some rave reviews.)
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Character classes are of course most useful when you really want to
catch a largish range of characters, such as [a-z], or negate the
class, i.e. [^a-z].
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