Re: regex of the month (decade?)

Stoll, Steven R. wrote:
> (p(ost)?[.\s]*o(ffice)?[.\s]*box)
> po(b|x|drawer|stoffice|[ ]bx|box)
> p[\/]o
> b(x|ox|uzon)
> a(partado|ptdo)
> 
> Which matches:
> (p(ost)?.*o(ffice)?.*box)
> 
> post(anynumberofanythingexceptnewline)office(anynumberofanythingexceptnewlin
> e)box

'[.\s]*' matches any number of periods or whitespace characters, since 
'.' is not special inside a character class.  It's not the same as '.*'. 
  Also, even if '.' were special, '\s' matches newline along with other 
whitespace characters.

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Keith C. Ivey <[email protected]>
Washington, DC