Re: Modifying the body of emails

On Jul 8, 2007, at 4:12 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> > But we're talking about sed here, which only recognizes basic  
> > regular expressions, annoying leaving me no way I can find to  
> > specify "find one or two of the previous character."
>
> the equivalent to .{1,2} is ..?
>
> The trouble comes when you want, say, 9-11 characters (like say a SSN  
> with or without dashes)
>
> \d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{3}
>
> becomes
>
> [0-9][0-9][0-9]-?[0-9][0-9]-?[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]
>
> which in my mind is a lot more unwieldy.

By my reading, BRE's do not support ?, or for that matter +, {, |, (, or ), making this not work either.

Jim

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