[osis-core] Regex question

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,

Yes we should require at least one character and we should exclude
whitespace.

Todd

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> From: osis-core-admin@bibletechnologieswg.org [mailto:osis-core-
> admin@bibletechnologieswg.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Durusau
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:18 AM
> To: osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
> Subject: [osis-core] Regex question
> 
> Guys,
> 
> Working on the new regex and noticed that we currently have for grain:
> 
> (@(cp:\[(\p{Nd})*\]|s:\[(\p{L}|\p{N}|\s)*\]))?
> 
> Note that the "*" operator means zero or more.
> 
> IF someone put the grain syntax in (yes, need to ditch the ":" as
well,
> but it is now in 1.7) shouldn't we require some content in between the
> [ ]'s?
> 
> Easy enough to fix using the "+" operator, which means one or more.
> 
> Would give us cheap error detection on grains that have no content.
> 
> Noticed it when I was writing the addition to the regex for Todd's
> occurrrence indicator.
> 
> Hope everyone is having a great day!
> 
> Patrick
> 
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