RegEx

[shapper]

Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Oct 4, 2:10 pm, shapper <[e-mail]:

Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

..*

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:
!what should be the RegEx expression that accepts everything?

$

I don't see why you should need it, though.
Just not using any RegEx will match everything.


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"shapper" <md*****@gmail.comwrote in message news:11**********************@d55g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...

Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello Alexey,

On Oct 4, 2:10 pm, shapper <[e-mail]:

>Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

.*

That's not entirely true. . matches everything except a newline character,
unless the SingleLine option is also specified.

So either:

(?s:.*)

or

(\W|\w)*

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

[Juan T. Llibre]

Hi, Jesse.

Doesn't :

$

....work, too ?

$ matches the ending position of the string
or the position just before a string-terminating newline.

In multiline mode, it matches the ending position of any line.

Ergo, it matches *all* text submitted...


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"Jesse Houwing" <je***********@newsgroup.nospamwrote in message
news:21**************************@news.microsoft.c om...

Hello Alexey,

>On Oct 4, 2:10 pm, shapper <[e-mail]:

>>Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

.*

That's not entirely true. . matches everything except a newline character, unless the SingleLine option is also
specified.

So either:

(?s:.*)

or
(\W|\w)*
--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Oct 4, 7:22 pm, Jesse Houwing <[e-mail]>
wrote:

Hello Alexey,

On Oct 4, 2:10 pm, shapper <[e-mail]:

Hello,

This might be a strange question but what should be the RegEx
expression that accepts everything?

Thanks,
Miguel

.*

That's not entirely true. . matches everything except a newline character,
unless the SingleLine option is also specified.

So either:

(?s:.*)

or

(\W|\w)*

--
Jesse Houwing
jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl

well, it's true, "everything" must include a newline character :-)

(.|\n)*