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Re: Limiting extent

2002-10-20 00:28:29

From: fleet(_at_)teachout(_dot_)org
//.*[%[^/]].*/
...

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 dman(_at_)nomotek(_dot_)com wrote:
    //[^    /]*%[^  ]*/
...
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 11:55:51PM -0400, fleet(_at_)teachout(_dot_)org wrote:
I came up with http//.*[^/]%.*/ within 5 seconds of hitting the send

Harken to dman, for he speaks truly.

You don't want to use .* in this recipe.  It will match things like ...
"http://www.it.ca is 100% written in vi with gimp/ImageMagick for GIFs."
Not what you were looking for.

[Is there some sort of corollary to Murphy's Law that says the
solution to any request for assistance mailed to a discussion list
becomes blatantly obvious as soon as the send key is struck?]

It's a phenomenon which has been noticed before.  :)

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  Paul Chvostek                                             
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