need to add slashes
Kenneth Brody
kenbrody at spamcop.net
Sun May 28 10:25:04 PDT 2006
Quoting Fairlight (Fri, 26 May 2006 10:20:06 -0400):
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> > 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.
filePro edits have no "negate this set" syntax. You would have to use
the range operator, along with "or", to accept everything except an
apostrophe.
However, using the edit I gave, you don't need such a construct here.
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