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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca>
To: Apache Documentation Project <apache-docs@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote:

> It would be nice to have at least a pointer to a regular expression
> tutorial, and perhaps a description of some kind in the docs
> themselves about what type of regular expressions these are, what
> things are permitted in them, and how to do things like
> case-insensitive patterns, character classes, variable capture (the
> $1, $2 stuff) and all those sorts of nifty things. If someone can
> point me in the right direction, I'd be glad to get such a thing
> started.

For what it's worth, I support a short doc (in misc/) that exaplains
what a regular expression is and where to get more information;
perhaps a few examples could be included.  Alternatively,
an improved FAQ answer would be nice.

Joshua.


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