Matching strings with regexps

[Robin Becker]

In article <000001befcb7$83e9b9a0$4c2d153f at tim>, Tim Peters
<tim_one at email.msn.com> writes
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>give-a-man-a-meal-and-you've-fed-him-for-a-day-
>    give-a-man-a-regexp-and-you-may-as-well-kill-him-ly y'rs  - tim
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so to turn a dead man into a zombie we pose the timbot the problem of
recognizing those regular expressions which he so kindly quoted for us
to immediately forget and then whine later that we lost the ref.
-mind numbedly yrs- 
Robin Becker