Oh yeah makes perfect sense now...match nothing or nothing and sense everything has nothing it always matches. haha...I like that.
Tanton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan E. Paton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]