On Saturday 24 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > > But why does "[[:space:]]+" work and "\s+" fail? > > Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] >
Here for a start: http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html#shorthand and also http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qregexp.html#characters-and-abbreviations-for-sets-of-characters Is it a Perl thing? Probably! http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/littperl/perlreg.htm#DoingStringComparisons -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
