OT: Regex question

[Chris Stone]

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On Monday 27 June 2005 09:45 pm, Craig Daters wrote:
> My grasp of regex is very rudimentary at best, and I am trying to
> construct an expression that will hit every instance of these kinds of
> lines:
>
> pool-141-154-180-187.wma.east.verizon.net
>
> So in this instance, I would like to know how to construct the instance
> to find anything that starts with "pool" and ends with "verizon.net". I
> don't care what everything else in between might be.
>

pool.+verizon\.net

or probably better:

pool-[0-9]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,3}-[0-9]{1,3}\.[a-z]+\.[a-z]\.verizon\.net

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