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Re: explanation for recipe behavior

2002-03-25 11:53:34
At 13:10 2002-03-25 -0500, Nikolaus Hiebaum did say:
It now works with .* prepended, and I'm just curious why?

Well, uh, because the '.*' says 'match zero or more of any character', whereas a literal space says to match, well, a literal space.

From: "Webster Bulletin" <adams(_at_)webster(_dot_)ac(_dot_)at>
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Do you figure the identified text qualifies as:

        a. "one space, exactly"
        b  "zero or more of anything"

This is an open book exam.  The manpages are at your disposal.

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