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    this case you need the entire line unbroken, so that's why <code style="padding:1px 2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">$0</code> works.
    <p></p></div></blockquote><div><div><div>Good point! I had a feeling it was working by accident but couldn't spot why :-)</div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><p><br></p><span class=""><font color="#888888">
    <p style="margin:2em 0px 4em">Rasmus</p></font></span><div><div class="h5">
    <div>On 07/02/16 19.14, Carpii UK wrote:<br>
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                  <div>Can you please help me understand what is
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                    <div>^   beginning of the line</div>
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                      <div>.*::.*</div>
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                    <div>$  end of the line</div>
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                <div>^   match the beginning of the line</div>
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                <div>.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from
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                <div>:: followed by 2 literal colon characters</div>
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                <div>.* followed by 0 or more characters (apart from
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                  <div>$  followed by the end of the line (a \n
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                  <div>also…<br>
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                  <div>can you please tell me what the zero after the $
                    doing in this string?</div>
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                    <div>getValue( $0; 1) ;</div>
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            <div>The $0 is a way of referencing one of the captures the
              regular expression made</div>
            <div>I'm not entirely sure this capturing syntax is right,
              normally I use brackets to capture, yet it seems to work
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            <div>We need to do this otherwise we don't know what to
              output after getValue(</div>
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                          <div>On Feb 7, 2016, at 7:29 AM, Carpii UK
                            <<a href="mailto:carpii.uk@gmail.com" target="_blank">carpii.uk@gmail.com</a>
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                              using a regular expression like this..</span>
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