You're evil!

[iago]

Ah, I didn't know you could do (x|).  Cool!

[Joe]

That also includes gvi and xvi.

[rabbit]

(g|x|)vi(m|)

[Joe]

It is possible to have g and not m, isn't it?

[rabbit]

You suck at regular expressions.

[Joe]

Yeah, I do, hence the "isn't it?".

[Blaze]

*

There we go.  :D

[Joe]

You suck at regex, Blaze. "*" is not a wildcard, therefore it'd only pick up things like "blaze*sucks*at*regexs" which have a * in them.

You mean "".

[rabbit]

* is a 0 or more quantifier, so "joe suck(s*|z*)" would match "joe suck", "joe sucks", "joe suckz", "joe suckssssss", "joe suckzzzzzzzz" or anything of that sort.

[iago]

That also includes gvi and xvi.

Ah, that's true.  Doing a proper regex would have to completely separate vi from all the rest, I think. 

Perhaps: (vi|(g|x|)im)

[Rule]

Another fairly well known Richard Stallman quote:

Why GNU `su' does not support the `wheel' group
===============================================

   (This section is by Richard Stallman.)

   Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the
rest.  For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to
seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and
keeping it secret from everyone else.  (I was able to thwart this coup
and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I wouldn't
know how to do that in Unix.)

   However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone.  Under the usual
`su' mechanism, once someone learns the root password who sympathizes
with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest.  The "wheel
group" feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the power of
the rulers.

   I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers.  If you are
used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you
might find this idea strange at first.

       This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su
       to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist  system  adminis-
       trators hold unwarranted power over other users.

[iago]

       This program does not support a "wheel group" that restricts who can su
       to super-user accounts, because that can help fascist  system  adminis-
       trators hold unwarranted power over other users.

That almost sounds like a joke.  Hard to say, though.  I like it, anyways :)

[Sidoh]

Hahaha.  I wouldn't be too surprised if that's a real quote, but I'm not sure.