What's a quick and real neat way of....

Stephen Judd StephenJ at web.co.nz
Wed Nov 6 14:14:31 CST 2002



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> From: Enkidu [mailto:enkidu at cliffp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 10:05 p.m.
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> OK, thanks. What does the "[]" constract do? 

It defines a "character class". Eg:

	[0123456789]

matches any digit. You could think of it as (0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9). 

	[clif]

matches c, f, i or l. You can append a quantifier like * or + just as you can with any other character.

A caret at the beginning of a character class negates the whole thing. Thus:

	[^abcd]

will not match a, b, c or d.

Stephen



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