Oh yeah makes perfect sense now...match nothing or nothing and sense
everything has nothing it always matches. haha...I like that.

Tanton
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From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Text file manipulation


> > I ran some tests and it looks like /|/ matches just about
anything...what
> > does /|/ mean?
>
> If it were a regex, hang on... maybe it is... it would mean:
>
> Match a zero length string OR a zero length string.  | is the regex
character
> for OR.
>
> Jonathan Paton
>
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