Re:The weirdest bug I've seen yet
by radiojosh on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:00PM
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That was a great read, but there was one thing I didn't understand: Why would the regex string have "." twice in a row? What does ".." find that "." doesn't find? Does that just mean "at least two characters"?
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It means specifically 2 characters, and is equivalent to .{2}
..+ or ...* are ways of writing "at least two characters".
Re:The weirdest bug I've seen yet
by bn-usd-mistake on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:44AM
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A single `.` matches exactly one character. `..` matches exactly two characters (not more, not less).