On Apr 11, 9:42 pm, Jean-Claude Neveu <jcn-france1...@pobox.com>
wrote:
> My regexp that I'm matching against is: "^\$\£?\d{0,10}(\.\d{2})?$"
>
> Here's how I think it should work (but clearly
> I'm wrong, because it does not actually work):
>
> ^\$\£? Require zero or one instance of $ or £ at the start of the string.
The "or" in "$ or £" above is a vertical bar. You
want ^(\$|£)? here.
> d{0,10} Next, require between zero and ten alpha characters.
> (\.\d{2})? Optionally, two characters can
> follow. They must be preceded by a decimal point.
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