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Old 04-28-2008
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Hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by meevagh View Post
... I prob could have explained it a bit better. ...
Changing 4 characters in the regular expression allows:
Code:
% ./p3 data1 data2 data3

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 File contains:
United
Champions
Liverpool
Losers
Torres

 Oh, a miss!

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 File contains:
United
Champions
Ronaldo
Liverpool
Losers
Torres

 Hit!

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 File contains:
United
Champions
Liverpool
Losers
Torres
Ronaldo

 Oh, a miss!
Best wishes ... cheers, drl