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> also a little closer to normal regular expressions in that it uses + &
> * for zero-or-more & one-or-more. It also has ranging fcns - for
I sure hope you mean "anti-respectively" i.e.
* -- zero or more
+ -- one or more
The Kleene star has meant "zero or more" since regular expressions
were invented half a century ago, and + has a long history of meaning
"one or more". I know just one company who has written an irregular
expression package that has it the opposite way. That is idiocy, and
I don't want it to spread.
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