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Originally Posted by Manichean
The search is unanchored, right?
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Unanchored, and also global. Every occurrence found of the search pattern will be replaced.
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I was thinking along the lines of this being a similar case to the palindrome issue we discussed some time ago, because in the general case, you cannot know how many dots there are in an authors' name. Clearly, I was thinking too complicated- I thought about matching the non-dot parts as groups and using backreferences...
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It is so easy to start down roads that lead to perdition. I do it frequently.
