* Rob Reid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> At 2:35 PM EST on February 23 Thomas Hurst sent off:
> > Easy, just run it through something that gives more detailed errors:
> >
> > test.rb:2: invalid regular expression; there's no previous pattern,
> > to which '*' would define cardinality at 2:
>
> Can you tell us specifically what "something" is?

I used ruby there; C&P'd both regex's into a script and ran Ruby over
it.

ruby -e '/<regex>/' would do just as well, as would perl -e or python.
I even remeber some Java text editor which had a regex testing plugin.

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