From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@...>
Date: 2004-09-20T06:43:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Method improvement request .--

Charles Hixson wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> On Sep 19, 2004, at 4:03 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry.  It took me a bit of digging to find the /.../x documentation 
>>> even after you explicitly pointed it out to me.  (This won't work 
>>> for me, because my actual pre- and post- patterns also exclude 
>>> spaces, but it can certainly clarify the example, if one understands 
>>> it!)
>>
>> You can match space characters in an /.../x regex.  The easiest way 
>> is to use the whitespace character class escape \s.
>> Hope that helps.
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Does that work inside character class definitions( [] delimited groups)?

Silly of me, of course not.  /s *IS* a character class definition. 

But this does mean that I won't be able to use /.../x in the code.   
Still, it's great for clarifying the examples, now that I understand it.