[osis-core] Grain regex

[Todd Tillinghast]

Patrick,
> 
> Todd,
> 
> Todd Tillinghast wrote:
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> >Patrick,
> >
> >>Todd,
> >>
> >>
> >>Doesn't cost any more and you get more robust addressing. Would be
> >>
> >more
> >
> >>difficult to specify and implement white space delimited tokens
only,
> >>and the ultimate ability is less useful. (I know, an argument for MS
> >>
> >to
> >
> >>do it that way but I prefer the other result. ;-)
> >>
> >>Note that unless there is a very good reason to not do the square
> >>brackets that lands in my inbox by tomorrow morning, I will issue
1.1
> >>(as a beta for buidling texts) final to appear by say 1 September(?)
> >>
> >by
> >
> >>tomorrow at NOON.
> >>
> >>Patrick
> >>
> >
> >What is the motivation behind [ and ] for string?  Why not use : for
> >both cases?
> >
> >Todd
> >
> I think it is necessary to delimit the begining and ending of the
> string, like quotes would be used in an attribute value. (Steve?
> comments?)
> 
> Patrick
> 
> --
> Patrick Durusau
> Director of Research and Development
> Society of Biblical Literature
> pdurusau@emory.edu
> 
> 

Isn't the string everything after the : until the end of the reference
OR until the - in the case of the first value in a range reference.

How would we know when the number ends for the ch:number case?  Same
rules.  Neither case requires [ ] to know when the start and end are.

Todd