Now that I'm staring at this chart, I'm recalling that at some point I was trying to parse markdown. Pretty sure this is looking for nested lists:
* Hello!
1. A nested ordered list
Though, it is interesting to me that the initial * or \d\. is not captured; one would think it'd be important to distinguish between an unordered and ordered list...
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I studied the screenshot I attached to my comment and came to the same conclusion but it looks to me the expression might be more complicated than it needs to be - without fully understanding the context of course.
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Now that I'm staring at this chart, I'm recalling that at some point I was trying to parse markdown. Pretty sure this is looking for nested lists:
Though, it is interesting to me that the initial
*or\d\.is not captured; one would think it'd be important to distinguish between an unordered and ordered list...I studied the screenshot I attached to my comment and came to the same conclusion but it looks to me the expression might be more complicated than it needs to be - without fully understanding the context of course.