Ron: have you ever looked at the 1970's unix manual volume 2b under the
YACC topic. See this webpage. Look for the link for the PDF files and
use the link : v7vol2b.pdf (819KB)

Webpage
'7th Edition Manual PDF'
(http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/bswv7.html)

pdf file
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf



It is the only good description of pattern matching that I have ever
seen.

The question mark indicates any single character.

"[-+]?\b\d+\b"


There are a number of problems with the above search string

1) why do you care that a blank occurs immediately after the last
digit. what happens if there is a return, tab or end of file
2) The match is looking for a positive or negative sign folowed by any
character followed by a blank. Most people don't have a blank.


\d+|([-+]\d+)

It is where I found the saying

If you can't bring Mohammed to the mountain, bring the mountain to
Mohammed.


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