Any questions involving matching text strings to patterns - the pattern is called a "regular expression."
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CallumD
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by CallumD »
I am on a RegEx tutorial and it's stating that:
"(a|b)*c": a string that has a sequence of alternating a's and b's ending in a c.
Given that the asterisk (*) means zero or more, wouldn't this type of string search also just return every instance of 'c'?
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feyd
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by feyd »
Try it.

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CallumD
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by CallumD »
Is there a program I can download to test POSIX regular expressions?
I am on my work computer, not my home computer which has a home server set up to test PHP scripts...
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by feyd »
There is an application referenced in our own regex board that may be of interest.
viewtopic.php?t=33106
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by pickle »
Moved to Regex board.
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