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# with the regular expression, '*album cover*photoshop*'
:P
(I helped save b3ta! unstableOvine has not aged well, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 22:50, archived)
# Que?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 22:52, archived)
# sorry. geek attack
Regular expressions are pattern matching algorithms - the one above reads as "any text followed by 'album cover', followed by any text, followed by 'photoshop', followed by any text"

See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
(I helped save b3ta! unstableOvine has not aged well, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 22:56, archived)
# (has PERL withdrawl)
I do
(Right-Sequitur follows along rightly, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 22:58, archived)
# I'm now waiting for someone to tell me
that my regexp is wrong - which it is, but there's so many different flavours I really couldn't be arsed and I thought most people would understand the asterisk wildcard
(I helped save b3ta! unstableOvine has not aged well, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 23:00, archived)