Thread: Word Regular Expressions: zero or more occurences?
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Old 09-15-2015, 08:59 PM
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If you consider what '0 or more occurrences' means, in the context of looking for [A-Z]{1} followed by '0 or more occurrences' of [0-9], that's really no different than looking for [A-Z]*; after all, '0 or more occurrences' means you don't really care whether there are any of [0-9] after [A-Z].
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