[projectaon] Re: Footnotes Redux--Revenge of the Deathlord
- From: Chris Neilson <crusty.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:15:57 +1300
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 11:28 +0000, Simon Osborne wrote:
> Only
> several searches were needed when using a rough regular expression such as:
>
> <!--ERRTAG-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+-->
> <!--/ERRTAG-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+-->
> <!--ERRTAG-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+-[A-Z]+-->
> <!--/ERRTAG-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+-[A-Z]+-->
>
> I'm sure that can be reduced down to just one expression, but I'm just
> dabbling to make life simpler for myself. ;-)
yeah you can use ? to mean "may or may not be present" ... so (assuming
all your escaping is correct) you could use:
<!--/?ERRTAG-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+(-[A-Z]+)?-->
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