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It only looks for a single leading “e” or “i”, not any number. I’m guessing those tweaks were added to capture specific proper nouns that weren’t captured by si

by jcl 2y ago

It only looks for a single leading “e” or “i”, not any number. I’m guessing those tweaks were added to capture specific proper nouns that weren’t captured by simpler “leading capital letter” regexes, like “iPad” or “eBay”.

Izkata 2y ago
"*" is "0 or more" and "+" is "1 or more", it looks for any number of "e" or "i" at the beginning and at least one capital letter. The diagram below the regex is wrong. Instead of [ie]*-?[A-Z]+ it looks like they wanted [ie]?-?[A-Z]
- genewitch 2y ago
  There was a product called the eeePC or so. It was a "netbook."
  - card_zero 2y ago
    The Asus product line, yes (all three Es apparently stand for "easy"). But Asus write it with a capital E on the front. Still, somebody else might not.