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To: Dr. Id who wrote (6257)	9/15/2000 9:08:30 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 22706

is it a "regular expression" aka regexp ? -ckr ------- man regexp : DESCRIPTION These functions are general-purpose regular expression matching routines to be used in programs that perform Basic Regular Expression (see regexp(5)) matching. These functions are defined in <regexp.h>. The functions step() and advance() do pattern matching given a character string and a compiled regular expression as input. compile() takes a Basic Regular Expression as input and produces a compiled expression that can be used with step() and advance(). The interface to this file is unpleasantly complex. Programs that include this file must have the following five macros declared before the #include <regexp.h> statement. These macros are used by the compile() routine.