Thank you very much, any of your suggestions will work in my case.
>>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
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>Yelena,
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>(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
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>I'd say it will work without them. That is your problem
>
>A couple of remarks
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>(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)
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>(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
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>10|11|12(\/\d{1,2}\/)(08)
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>I would prefer
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>((10)|(11)|(12))\/\d{1,2}\/08
>or
>(10|11|12)\/\d{1,2}\/08
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>>
>update:
>
>and I like this better - it will not match "00
12/12/0800" but it will match "00
12/12/08 00" or "(
12/12/08)"
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>\b1[012]\/\d{1,2}\/08\b
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