Oh, it is definitely the case that if the pattern in question is then concatenated into a more complex pattern, then '[ab]' is equivalent to '(a|b)' but not to 'a|b'.
Consider that the function to which the pattern is given might then be searching for, something like '^(?:(.*?)[ab])*(.*)$' or '^(?:(.*?)a|b)*(.*)$' to populate \1 \2 … with the various substrings of the long string with delimiters. I suggest that this indicates a bug in the split-string function, which ought to wrap the delimiter pattern so that it tells the RE engine to match '^(?:(.*?)(?:a|b))*(.*)$' instead. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
