From: Daniel Bye <ruby@...>
Date: 2008-01-15T00:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:24:30PM +0900, Johnathan Smith wrote:
> thank you.
>=20
> what ive basically got now is
>=20
> \w{7}(ed|ing)

 \w{7}(?:\wed|ing)

=3D 7 word characters followed by either a word character and the string
"ed" or the string "ing".

>=20
> was basically works for ing but only matches a 9 letter word for ed

Because your version tells it to match on 7 word characters followed by
"ed" or "ing".

Dan

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