Thread: [a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,} what does this mean and what is it called
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Default [a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,} what does this mean andwhat is it called
On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:28:58 AM UTC-7, RodneyB wrote:
[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}\@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]{1,}

I was given this to use to find all the emails in a very large document.


I want to try and understand what the symbols mean and what the process

is called

It is called RegEx, see tables in the bottom of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression




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