Re: [FWP] Comparing Regular Expressions

["Bill Jones" <bill@fccj.org>]

> Is there a way to "compare" regular expressions? For instance,
> q/.*/ is less than q/a.*/ because whatever matches the latter
> also matches the former. Is there an easy way to do such a
> comparison?

That's not true.  What the first one matches is just about
everything, except a newline; note that you don't need q// - which
I believe you've just turned your expression into '.*' - when a
simple /.*/ would do.

The /a.*/ will only match those things with an a in them
followed by whatever...

Remember - a dot (.) is any character except a newline...
-Sneex-  :]

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