but you can't replace one of the leading \'s in the regexp (at least in perl), so I counted 16. On Mar 7, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Jasvir Nagra wrote: > 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/~jas >Thread Previous | Thread Next