regular expressions "[X0-9][0-9]{4}" and "[0-9X][0-9]{4}" not equivalent?

ohoehle@hotmail.com (Oliver Hoehle)
21 Feb 2003 01:15:12 -0500

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regular expressions "[X0-9][0-9]{4}" and "[0-9X][0-9]{4}" not equiv ohoehle@hotmail.com (2003-02-21)
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From: ohoehle@hotmail.com (Oliver Hoehle)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 21 Feb 2003 01:15:12 -0500
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Keywords: lex, question
Posted-Date: 21 Feb 2003 01:15:12 EST

Hello!


IMHO, the regular expressions should be equivalent, but Jakarta-RegExp
1.2 does not think so.


For example: RegExp will tell me that the string "X1234" matched only
the second expression....;-(


Whats going wrong?


Regards Oliver
[Looks OK to me. Any chance you mistyped something? -John]


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