From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-01-19T02:36:21+09:00
Subject: Re: My regexp stupidity needs assistance before loose all my hair!

On Jan 18, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Zach Dennis wrote:

> [\w]+	= you are looking for a character class with any word character
> 	 one or more times

Shortcuts like \w define character classes, so the brackets are not 
needed, as the other poster hinted at.  ;)

	\w+ and [\w]+ are identical

You can put them in classed if you want, mainly to add to them:

	[\w']+ match word and ' characters

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II