Message Centre (sorry, I physically can't spell it the American way)

Just want it noted that I've been spelling it the UnAmerican way, but not necessarily calling attention to it...

why are there white-fonted asterisks instead of a collection of  s?

Jon explained this to me but it made my head hurt. That bit is only there to guard about strange wrapping, in Netscape, for threads with no posts in them, or something.

And in response to Gar's

the "one" on the second line of the verse poofs, but he "on" third does not

did my fix not sort that out, ita, or didn't it get put in yet?

The code, Gar, is

HTML-opening-bracket, some stuff, a space, a word beginning with on, some more stuff until an HTML-closing-bracket

What happens is that this:

<pre>something one something</pre>

gets read as if the "one" is between the red brackets, which technically it is, but that wasn't the intention of the code. We need to make the "some more stuff until an HTML-closing-bracket" portion of the regex change to "ome more stuff until the next HTML-closing-bracket", which should fix it.

I think we can fix it up

John, is the last regexp this:

/(<.*?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/

because that's what's in there.

/(<.*?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/

I think we need to change that to:

/(<[^>]+?)\\son[a-zA-Z]+([^>]+>)/

that should do it.

(anyone paying attention who realises that completely contracticts my verbal solution above, please just keep it to yourself.)

Edited for the slash before the s.

Done.

1) This old man.
2) He played one.
3) He played knicknack on my thumb..

Cool. That was mega-quick.

John's good like that.

John's good like that.

You're very kind, but it's the classic beginner's mistake with regexes. "Dot-star is almost never what you want" -- Jeffrey E Friedel, Mastering Regular Expressions, O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.

it's the classic beginner's mistake with regexes

Well, some of us beginners never got that far.

Yes -- it's for table width. It used to be a sentence. Spaces wouldn't have the same effect.

Is anyone else desperately curious about what that sentence was?

Nothing scandalous ...

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