[LUG] regexp?

[Adrian Midgley <akm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NHS Numbers are 10 digits.
The canonical formatting of them is 
999 999 9999

However often they are present as 
9999999999

I am always amazed by the cleverness of people who can produce regexps such 
as one that would enable me to grep all lines out of a big text (csv, values 
in "") file which contain a specific NHS number regardless of which format it 
is presented in...

I'm converting an application from VB with an Acess database into something 
else, possibly Python/TCL interface working the usual underpinnings.
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