On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 15:13 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> >>> header FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS From =~ /\d{6,}[a-z._-][a-z0-9._-]{0,50}@/i
> >> This regex requires that the 7th character be non-numeric.
>
> > Nope - only that a character after the first six is a legal address
> > character but non-numeric.
>
> Hmmm.... My bad.
> I forgot that the '{6,} would match more than 6 digits...
> Silly me..... <:-}
>
No problem - I misread your regex in a similar way. Still, its
comforting to know that both approaches produce the same result.
Martin
