Re: [FWP] Could be fun(ny|nier)?

[Michael Assels <mjassels@cs.concordia.ca>]

		       On Tue, 02 May 2000 15:24:54 EDT,
			       Bill Jones wrote:
:Is there away to combine these?
:
:/^[ ]*[+-]?\d+[ ]*$/;
:
:/^[ ]*[+-]?\d*\.?\d*([eE][+-]?\d+)?[ ]*$/;
:


If, by "combine", you mean "replace with something that matches 
everything that _either_ regex matches," then

	/^[ ]*[+-]?\d*\.?\d*([eE][+-]?\d+)?[ ]*$/;

(Yes, that's the second regex, unchanged.)

BTW, you probably wanted " ", or "[ \t]", (or maybe even "\s") where you
have "[ ]".

Also, the second regex matches " ", which may be too permissive.

Michael

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