On 5 May 2016 at 10:27, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 16:24 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Oh, right. I never use a regexp that can match nothing, so I missed >> that. :-) > > You never use '*'? >
I guess he meant "match *only* nothing", most of the time using * you'll still use it in combination with a non-empty pattern. Easy to miss that only [something]* can match nothing and therefore first matches at the start of the line. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
