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On 16 Jan 2014 10:03, "Marcus Smith" <<a href="mailto:qwcode@gmail.com">qwcode@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> My apologies. I misread N[.N]+ as the '+' meaning "one or more" (as in<br>
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> maybe N[(.N)+] would be clearer.<br>
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> all of (.N)+ is optional<br>
> but when it's present it can be .N or .N.N or .N.N.N etc...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yeah, that's a good idea. Simply switching to * might encourage the idea it's a regex, when it's more the kind of pseudo grammar people use to describe command line parameters.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Nick.</p>
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