Hi,

        I'm reading up on Regular Expressions and I have a question about 
alternation.

        I have the sentences: "There was a dog in the house." & "A house on the 
hill."

        Both of these are in a file (named "regex") on two different lines.

        My understanding of alternation is that it will look both for what is 
on the right and left of the pipe.

        So, if I type: 

                grep in|hill regex

        isn't that supposed to give me both sentences in stdout?

        When I type that, I get nothing at all on return.  I've even typed it 
as:

                grep in\|hill regex

        and I still get nothing.  What am I doing wrong?  Is what I'm typing 
and what I'm asking for two different things?  Thanks.

TW


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