Re: [FWP] japhy had a silly idea...

["David H. Adler" <dha@panix.com>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:38:30PM -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
> On May 25, David H. Adler said:
> 
> >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:21:38AM -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
> >> I tried for an hour and a half or so to craft a regex that matches itself,
> >> and ONLY itself.
> >> 
> >> I came up with nothing -- well, several dead ends at least.
> >
> >I notice that you didn't put any further constraints.  How about just a
> >literal string?
> >
> >$regex = 'HEY';
> >
> >Or did I miss something?
> 
> That matches "THEY".  The regex must ONLY MATCH ITSELF.  No other text
> should match it.

Yeah, I figured that out *just* after sending... *sigh*

dha

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