[Cialug] OT: can somebody help me with a regular expression?

[Todd Walton]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Chris Freeman <cwfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:
> \b(|D|PP)\d{1,3}(,{0,1}\d{3})*

You'll miss the first 999 patents.  I'm guessing that's not gonna
matter, but couldn't you make character 13 above be a zero instead of
a one?

There's some interesting looking patents from back then.  Apparently,
verbosity was not as much of an asset back then.

-todd