alternation option end of string

Ray Andrews <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.shells.zsh.devel,gmane.comp.shells.zsh.user
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I know how to do an alternation, but how do you make one of the choices 
'nothing' meaning end of string?
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