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Re: VPlus Pattern Matching
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Bruce Hobbs <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Hobbs <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:35:55 -0800
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At 12:00 AM -0500 1/14/00, Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Should the "d*" pattern match in VPlus match a blank field?
>
As I've always understood it, the asterisk repetition character means "zero or more instances." A blank or empty field does indeed contain zero digits.
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