From: Robert Dober Date: 2006-04-07T22:35:57+09:00 Subject: Re: String generalization ------=_Part_18794_13508609.1144416954155 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 4/6/06, Dominik Bathon wrote: > > But what would you do with "1b23xy3sa"? Should that be /\w+/ or > /\d[a-z]\d+[a-z]+\d[a-z]+/? > > > Dominik That is exactly the question one has to ask himself. Given the original post it can be generalized to /.*/. To generalize one string does not make any sense, to generalize sets of set= s of strings each set defining an entity, that makes sense... ... and is increadibly difficult. Cheers Robert -- Deux choses sont infinies : l'univers et la b=EAtise humaine ; en ce qui concerne l'univers, je n'en ai pas acquis la certitude absolue. - Albert Einstein ------=_Part_18794_13508609.1144416954155--