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Re: Regex
- From: vijay nag <vijunag at gmail dot com>
- To: ÐÐÐÑÑ ÐÐÑÐÐ <pashev dot igor at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "libc-help at sourceware dot org" <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:46:12 +0530
- Subject: Re: Regex
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On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:32 PM, ÐÐÐÑÑ ÐÐÑÐÐ <pashev.igor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014/1/9 vijay nag <vijunag@gmail.com>:
>> What is the regex to match any string ?
>
> ".*" ?
Ok. And the real question here is, why "*" cannot be used to match any
string in extended regular expression whereas it works fine in basic
regular expressions ?