need to add slashes

[Fairlight]

Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Kenneth Brody been jivin' 'bout like:
> 
> Okay, that's wrong.  "[ A ]" may occur zero or one time.  See further
> down at "[{ A }]" which is correct in the "zero or more times".

Ah.  That could be a problem.

> Well, let's assume you had the correct syntax for "zero or more times",
> and used:
> 
>     [{ * }]<"\">"'"[{ * }]
> 
> This is still wrong, as the "[{ * }]" means "any character (including
> apostrpohes) zero or more times".  In other words, the entire field.
> After consuming the entire field, including the apostrophes, there is
> no way for an apostrophe to still be there, as your edit requires.

I take your point.  What's the equivalent syntax for [^']* in perl expanded
RE's?  That says, "Expect zero or more non-apostrophe characters."  What's
the edit analog?  Wasn't seeing a good way of doing that.

> In this case, Laura's help file is wrong.  (Hey, it happens.)  But,
> the logic is still flawed, as described above.

If it helps her, it's presented that way in v2.0.02 of her help files.  She
may have it corrected in a later release if there is one.

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