I think its 255^2 + 8^17. The two "." account for 255^2 and there are 8^17 strings of length 17 with an 8 character alphabet. On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 19:26 -0500, josh wrote: > sorry if some folks recieve this twice, my mail server is on the > fritz. > > ^.[\\[\]{}17.]{17}.$ > > I think, 255^2 + 8^16 possible strings? > > my smtp capabilities are on the fritz, so my apologies if anyone > recieves > duplicate emails from me. > > -- Jasvir Nagra http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~jasThread Previous | Thread Next