On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Henry Drexler <alonup8tb@gmail.com> wrote: > So it is saying look past seven characters "^.{7}" and check that next > character if it is an interger "\d" > Is that a correct narrative for what is going on?
Well almost. I read it as:
Test to see if a pattern exists where
'^' from the beginning of the text string '.{7}' match exactly seven characters what ever they happen to be '\d' next match exact one numeric character and then if found ignore the remainder of the string.