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May 9th, 2006, 07:05 PM
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Basic regex understanding help
(a | b) + x = ax, bx, aax, abx, bax, bbx
The values on the RHS are ones that match the regex on the LHS. However, from my interpretation, it either matches 'a' or 'b' one or more times and then 1 'x'. so, 'ax' 'aax' 'bbx' seem valid, but how come 'abx' 'bax' are valid? I thought | means 'or' so it's one or the other, 'a' or 'b' one or more times?
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May 9th, 2006, 07:15 PM
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You've got the grouping mixed up. Take it apart.
(a|b) -- matches either 'a' or 'b'. (a|b)+ -- matches one or more repetitions of (a|b), so 'a', 'b', 'aa', 'ab', 'ba', 'bb', 'aba', etc. are all good. Any string is good as long as each character individually matches (a|b). (a|b)+ is not the same as (a+|b+).
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