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== Why the dot prefixes? == | |||
What do the initial dots do? For example in: | |||
.Technical Support Number.* | |||
Would that not make it a non-match if there is no letter there (i.e. the beginning of the line)? See also [http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.dot.php Dot]. | |||
—[[User:Johan G|Johan G]] ([[User_talk:Johan_G|Talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Johan_G|contribs]]) 10:38, 15 July 2017 (EDT) | |||
Revision as of 14:39, 15 July 2017
Regex syntax documentation
For reference documentation on the regular expression syntax used by the TitleBlacklist extension [1] see this resource: PHP PCRE Patterns
—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 10:30, 15 July 2017 (EDT)
Why the dot prefixes?
What do the initial dots do? For example in:
.Technical Support Number.*
Would that not make it a non-match if there is no letter there (i.e. the beginning of the line)? See also Dot.