Ah! Ok, yes, I had missed that. Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted.
Dave
On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Stephen Rawls wrote:
> >> Doesn't the :w option do that?
> >> :w/one two/ translates to /one \s+ two/
>
> >Not exactly. The regex you showed would match any of these (using
> underscores for
>
> Not know what a "finite state machine" was, I decided to poke around the
> Net before replying to you. I found this definition:
> ...
> at http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/gloss/pattern/dfa.html
>
> This seems rather ambiguous, though, as it basically means that a FSM is
> anything that you c
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Larry Wall wrote:
> (Had an interesting typo there. I put => insteaqd of ->. I wonder
> how much trouble that sort of thing is gonna cause. Maybe pairs
> can be disallowed or warned about where a pointy sub might be
> expected.)
To add to the list of helpful warnings, I ran
