Assume v. Presume

[Black Hole]

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(because it takes ***ing ages)
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***ing ages
...

Hmm. Guess the swear-word.

 

[EEPhil]

Interesting! I was going to say only one matched the template - then I spotted three * not four. Technically, it could be anything as * usually matches to one or more characters. I can guess the missing word. (French Connection UK?)

 

[prpr]

Naff!ng, flam!ng, sodd!ng for starters. Test your creativity.

* is usually zero or more, not one or more, in regexp terms. I thought I'd put 4, but see now it's only 3. Oh well, that's the usual muck-up then.

 

[EEPhil]

Naff!ng, flam!ng, sodd!ng for starters. Test your creativity.

* is usually zero or more, not one or more, in regexp terms. I thought I'd put 4, but see now it's only 3. Oh well, that's the usual muck-up then.

My creativity is lacking. But there would be no need to redact your examples.
I was never very experienced with regexp. I was thinking of filenames in DOS and VAX/VMS - I've a feeling that would still match zero or more.