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Old 09-27-2010, 09:42 AM   #66
Manichean
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Overall looking very good Manichean, sorry about the late review. Not sure that backreferences are really required, but you poked some fun at that, so fine by me.
Weeell, I thought so too, at first. But you can do fancy things with them in the search & replace, so they got in.

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Shouldn't this be two separate paragraphs?:
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This is actually incorrect, (1|2)+ will match all those strings. A group doesn't get 'locked' based on the first character it matches.
Hey, you're right. I just took it out of this post without checking. Just tested in Python, so, if I'm right, "(1|2)+" would actually be equivalent to "[12]+"?
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