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Re:Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets by secondhandvape on Friday June 13, 2014 @10:54AM (#7889118)
The question mark in the example regex isn't necessary, in case anyone was wondering.
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Re:Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets by primo44 on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:23AM (#7889273)
It's necessary. It makes the "s" in "hotels" optional, so that the regex can match either "hotel" or "hotels" and then the rest.
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Re:Domain name search with regular expressions and curated sets by mikejarema on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:22AM (#7889265)
Doesn't it imply a search for hotel OR hotels?
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