Invisible escreveu:
>>    Nice straw man.
> 
> Wasn't his problem that he didn't have a brain?
> 
>> (And "foo*bar" still doesn't mean what you think it means
>> as a regex.)
> 
> So, what, it means
> 
>   string "fo"
>   many (char 'o')
>   string "bar"
> 
> Or am I reading this wrong?

* means 0 or more of the previous pattern, in this case, letter 'o'.
+ means 1 or more.

"fobar" is accepted.  The correct pattern should be foo+bar or foo.*bar.

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