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I think the problem with that is that it requires something to be before
the X.  Something has to be there but no space.  I'm using perl to test
the ideas.

[cfowler at shuttle ~]$ ./regex.pl '[^ ]XMI001' 'XMI001'
No

[cfowler at shuttle ~]$ cat regex.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl
die "regex.pl <regex> <test string>\n" unless $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[1];
my $regex = $ARGV[0];
if($ARGV[1] =~ m/$regex/) {
        print "Yes\n";
} else {
        print "No\n";
}






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