From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-09-20T10:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Method improvement request .--

Hi --

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Charles Hixson wrote:

> 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.

There's no regex without /x that cannot be expressed with /x :-)


David

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David A. Black
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