Re: Regex in sift statements

[Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>]

> 	The following regex behaves in a way that reveals my ignorance of 
> regexes. 
> 	(.*)::([A-Z]*)	
> 
> 	This will match on CAN:: and CANEDM::Q but fails for CANEDM::QQ
> 
> 	I thought that * matched 0 or more occurences of the previous pattern
> This appears to match 0 or 1 but not more.  This is the behaviour I'd 
> have expected from [A-Z]?

	This problem sounds familiar -- a sleepless night is about to
	commence..

> => Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
> => University of Alberta         Lab Manager, Space Physics Group <=         
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	/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>