In article , Joe Willmann wrote:

In 1 Existing Section should be selected and ^\rec\.woodworking should
be in the list. I haven't a clue as to what the special carachters
mean.

^ means "begins with"

\ means read the next character as literally what it is, rather than as having
any special meaning. In regular-expression syntax, dot means "match any
character"; backslash-dot means "just a dot".

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)