I have always wanted a warning if a literal character occurs in a regex twice. That would have caught this error.
Any chance of seeing this in e.g. perl 6. How would I go about proposing it? Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steven Tolkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ranga Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Boston.pm] Posix constructs in regex... > > > Thanks for that... I see that now!. The posix notation is positively > confusing... The [ and ] have been hijacked :-)! > > > |[^:alpha:] => any character that is not ':','a','l','p','h'. > | > |It worked for the wrong reason. > | > |-- > |Mike Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://netgeek.ws> > |"Given the opportunity, some people will make a mess of anything." > | - Bert Bos >
