Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help with a regex

2008-05-25 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 25 May 2008, »Q« wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:57:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:]] As Robin's already pointed out,

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help with a regex

2008-05-24 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:57:45 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:]] As Robin's already pointed out, \s is part of Perl's regex syntax.