[tpm] Dumb regex question

[Alex Beamish]

On 8/21/07, Madison Kelly <linux at alteeve.com> wrote:
>
> For the life of me, I can't seem to get a simple regex working...
>
> All I want is to be able to match a word-character string that may have
> a hyphen in it.
>
> So:
>
> mizu-bu         # should match
> alteeve         # should match
> m!zu-bu         # should not match
> a|teeve         # should not match
>
> Someone mind hitting me with a clue-stick? Google and perldoc have
> failed me so far (though I readily admit fault here) ...


So /[a-z-]+/ doesn't work? What have you tried?

A dash needs to be at the end of a regex so it isn't interpreted as part of
a range. If in doubt, backslash it.

-- 
Alex Beamish
Toronto, Ontario
aka talexb

ps You could probably get an answer on IRC .. if you dare. ;)
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