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.
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Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.