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Subject: Re: [9fans] "Intervalic
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:51:57 -0500
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> Am I misunderstanding the REP operators?  If not, how do you folks
> like to handle such problems as one might use intervalic expressions on?
> Do you just use an explicit regular expression?  If so, I'm curious
> about the reasoning behind the design decision to leave intervalic
> expressions out.

They're a recent addition to the regular expression world and
no one has cared enough to add them.  

If you're using awk and want the first 24 characters, I'd use substr.

Russ