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<4D2763A0.2070209@rowe-clan.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/7/2011 1:23 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > /a.*b/ > > How big will that be? Oh it's certainly possible to create some very impractical patterns... /.*/ comes to mind. The pattern space in these cases is infinite, or rather, the size of the remaining document once an /a/ is sited in your example above.