>Hello All,
>I am trying to search for any comments in my code dated between 10/01/08 and 12/19/08 using code reference. In the “Look Up Reference” screen I checked “Use regular expressions” check box and selected “Comments only”. In the “Look for:” text box I am trying to enter a regular expression which will find all the appropriate comments. The month and the date part works as I expected, but I cannot get it to show me comments with “08” year only.
>Here is my last attempt.
>^10|11|12(\/\d{1,2}\/)(08)$
>
>Please help.
>Thank you
>Yelena

Yelena,

(1) The ^ and $ say that the date must be EXACTLY between the beginning of the line and the end of the line, which is not the case

I'd say it will work without them. That is your problem

A couple of remarks

(2) Your are dealing with AND and OR.
10 is 1 and 2
| is OR
To be sure of the evaluation, I would put the alternation between ()
eg
(10)|(11)|(12)

(3) If ever you need ^ and $, put the expression between in ()
eg ^(my long expr)$
I have found - on occasions - that without the parens, it does not match where it should


Although your expression - without ^$ - works

10|11|12(\/\d{1,2}\/)(08)

I would prefer

((10)|(11)|(12))\/\d{1,2}\/08
or
(10|11|12)\/\d{1,2}\/08

update:

and I like this better - it will not match "0012/12/0800" but it will match "00 12/12/08 00" or "(12/12/08)"

\b1[012]\/\d{1,2}\/08\b