Re: stuff i don't know

[jason@openinformatics.com (Jason E. Stewart)]

"Mike Fedyk" <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:57:33PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Where did you find the pattern definitions?  I had to write a script
> > > that ran multiple "apt-cache search" and then looked for duplicate
> > > responses to do multiple word searches.  Thanks.  I didn't see it in
> > > the apt-cache man page (and still don't).
> > 
> > It's just a regular expression.
> > 
> 
> You don't see ".+" in grep or perl as acting as AND.
> 
> Just where is this documented?

this.+that is a standard regexp in any variant to mean 'this' followed
by one or more characters followed by 'that'.

jas.