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Regular Expression - karabasappa.patil - 02-01-2008

What is the difference between dotstar (.*) and star * In qtp while doing Regular expression?


RE: Regular Expression - vadivelan - 02-02-2008

* - indicates the matches preceding characters the zero or more times.

.* - indicates the matches preceeding characters single or more times after dot.

Ex: first.* -- after first word it shown all characters.


RE: Regular Expression - Tony - 02-05-2008

I would suggest buying "Mastering Regular Expressions", ISBN 0596528124, if you don't know much about regular expressions. Its a great book!