Re: Ereg sass

From: Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:16:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Ereg sass
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At 10:36 18.03.2003, Jason k Larson said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >It's seeing the - as a range identifier, escape it to get the literal hyphen. > >How about this: >[a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]* > >In my tests, the period didn't need to be escaped with the \. --------------------[snip]-------------------- The period is a regex placeholder for "any character". Thus it will match a period, but also a #, a @, and everything that's not allowed in the planned regex. By escaping the period you're changing the meaning from "any character" to "or a period" (in this context) so I believe that's what you want to do. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/

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