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in thread counting the number of occurrances of a word using regex

There's no point in putting parenthesis around the search pattern, is there? I find it remarkably that 3 out of the 5 followups so far put parenthesis around the search pattern, without using $1.

Abigail

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Re: Re: counting the number of occurrances of a word using regex
by Ovid (Cardinal) on Dec 03, 2002 at 16:46 UTC

    You're right. I was just a-cuttin' and a-pastin' and not paying attention. That's a very bad habit of mine. Thanks for the reminder.

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    Ovid

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