From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: file globbing
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 08:49:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71675e95-eacf-1f84-8c80-a18999be1b73@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <112137895.688578.1628177238255@mail2.virginmedia.com>
On 2021-08-05 8:27 a.m., Peter Stephenson wrote:
>
> d,1([^[:digit:]]*|)(N)
>
> The (either_this|or_that) matches either what you originally said or nothing ("or_that" here is empty).
>
>
Marvelous, I know the logic of these regex things is very rigorous, so
the 'not digit BUT still something' construction must be handled and of
course there will be a way of saying 'not digit but maybe nothing' too.
Thanks Peter. I tried to get the '|' working myself but didn't get it
quite right.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 15:14 Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 15:27 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-08-05 15:36 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-08-05 16:05 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 16:48 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-08-05 18:22 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-05 18:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-08-05 17:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-08 15:07 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-08-08 16:19 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-08 18:28 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-08-08 22:24 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-08-09 0:41 ` Ray Andrews
2021-08-09 10:46 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-08-05 15:49 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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