Fred,
I'm including the "ldm-user" mailing-list in my reply because the
question is of general interest (you're not the first to ask). I hope
you don't mind.
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:03:02 -0700
>From: "Kopp, Fred" <Fred.Kopp@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "'Steve Emmerson'" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: pathological LDM regular-expressions
The above message contained the following:
> I have a request:
>
> request HDS "^[YZ].Q.*/mRUC" papagayo.unl.edu
>
> should this be changed to:
>
> request HDS "^[YZ].Q/mRUC" papagayo.unl.edu
>
> somehow I don't think this would work.
Don't change the above request. The ".*" string doesn't appear to result
in a pathological RE if it appears in the middle of the RE. It's only
when the ".*" IS A PREFIX that this appears to happen.
Similarly, however, don't have a ".*" SUFFIX in your RE-s. Although I
don't know if such RE-s are pathological or not, the ".*" suffix
certainly doesn't add anything to the RE.
Regards,
Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
