Re: Re: Space in regex

At 11/16/2006 08:46 PM, Myron Turner wrote:

The underscore plus alphanumeric are included in \w, so to get a regex such as you want:

                [\w\s\.\-&\']+
You should escape the dot because the unescaped dot stands for any single character, which is why .* stands for any and all characters.

Not actually. Inside a character class, a dot is just a period. You may escape it (or any other character) but you don't need to. To quote the manual: ______________________ Meta-characters ... In a character class the only meta-characters are: \

    general escape character

^

    negate the class, but only if the first character

-

    indicates character range

]

    terminates the character class

... Square brackets ... A closing square bracket on its own is not special. If a closing square bracket is required as a member of the class, it should be the first data character in the class (after an initial circumflex, if present) or escaped with a backslash. ... All non-alphanumeric characters other than \, -, ^ (at the start) and the terminating ] are non-special in character classes, but it does no harm if they are escaped. ______________________ http://ca.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php Regards, Paul