Re: [apps-discuss] Review of: draft-yevstifeyev-abnf-separated-lists-02

"Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com> Tue, 14 December 2010 19:51 UTC

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:52:50 +0800
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On 2010-12-14 at 18:29:15, Julian Reschke wrote:
> When in the HTTP grammar, we say
> 
>    1#2element
> 
> that matches the following header field values
> 
>    element
> 
>    element, element
> 
>    element, , element
> 
> So empty elements aren't counted.

Oh, well that's actually even easier...

    1*2^(*LWS *("," *LWS))element

--Martin