[j-nsp] Community RegEx

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:35:53PM -0400, Eric Van Tol wrote:
> A private response (thanks, Chris!) indicates to me that the following two are actually correct:
> 
> ^1234:((100)|(250)|(375))$
> ^1234:(100|250|375)$
> 
> My other example "works", but also matches on other patterns such as 999:250, 38549:250, and 7:100:
> 
> ^1234:(100)|(250)|(375)$

Oh, duh, yes I wasn't even paying attention to that part I thought your
question was just about the external parens. To do that "or" you want
(123|234|345), the additional parens around the individual items are
what is unnecessary. And of course you need the ^ $ to protect the begin
and end, otherwise you'd match 1234 as well as 11234, etc, etc.

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