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Re: Extract substrings using metacharacters

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• Subject: [mg48573] Re: Extract substrings using metacharacters
• From: Marcus Stollsteimer <marcus314 at yahoo.com>
• Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Paul Abbott wrote:

>  Marcus Stollsteimer <marcus314 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> What I don't understand is why you treat "*" and "@" differently,
>> shouldn't they both match 0 or more times, therefore in both cases
>> use x___ (3 underscores)?
> 
> No. Have a read of Section 2.8.3 of the Mathematica book, or go to

oops, I was so sure the only difference is the "case-sensitivity"
that I didn't even bother to look it up again...

> I expect that someone has already written general tools for such 
> operations ...

Hmm, didn't find anything in MathSource,
so, could this "someone" please identify himself... ;)
 
Regards,
Marcus

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