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From: dan.ellis_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-08-05 11:08:21
On 08/03/2002 05:04:26 PM news wrote:
> > I need a match on "a AND is" when searching a sentence like "This is a
> > test".
>Regular expressions match sequences of characters. Your match says to
match
>a string when both of 2 different matching possibilities exist anywhere in
>the string. To do this you must use 2 separate regular expression matches
>separating them by the normal C++ "&&" operator.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's wanted, but wouldn't
is.*a
do what he wants? Or if they need to be matched in either order:
(is.*a)|(a.*is)
It doesn't scale well, of course.
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