"Mike Fedyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:57:33PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Where did you find the pattern definitions? I had to write a script > > > that ran multiple "apt-cache search" and then looked for duplicate > > > responses to do multiple word searches. Thanks. I didn't see it in > > > the apt-cache man page (and still don't). > > > > It's just a regular expression. > > > > You don't see ".+" in grep or perl as acting as AND. > > Just where is this documented?
this.+that is a standard regexp in any variant to mean 'this' followed by one or more characters followed by 'that'. jas.
