Re: Question relating regexp

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Land) writes:

> =Why, in the first example, has the author
> prefaced the char 'K' with the one or more
> times multiplier? He only wants to find a 
> name beginning with 'K'(!)

The * applies to the space before the k, so "  *" means "one or more
spaces".  In other words, you have to match the space before the K.

> Then, in the snd grep command he doubled
> '[0-9]', wouldn't only '^1[0-9]*....'be 
> sufficent? 

'^1[0-9]*' would match 

1 K...
12 K ...

Doubling the [0-9] means that there has to be at least one digit
after the 1.

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