Re: Prefixes of regular expressions

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:18:06 GMT, Roedy Green
<see_website@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

the brute force approach is to have a different regex for each length
of string.

If you look at those regexes,, you may be able to create a single
regex that will work for more than one length. e.g.. that ended with
[0-9]* to reduce the total number of them you require.
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