From: Moises Trovo <moises.trovo@...>
Date: 2008-01-15T00:01:07+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression

The "\w{7}" matches with 7 chars, so to match all your expression it
have to have 9 chars ending with ed and 10 chars ending with ing.

On Jan 14, 2008 11:24 AM, Johnathan Smith <stu_09@hotmail.com> wrote:
> thank you.
>
> what ive basically got now is
>
> \w{7}(ed|ing)
>
> was basically works for ing but only matches a 9 letter word for ed
>
> there must be a better way to do it
> ive been playing around to with no luck
>
> any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>
>
> thanks
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