From: Brian Palmer <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2006-08-05T06:48:56+09:00
Subject: Re: What's happening here? A strange regexp problem wth posix :alpha: character class


On Aug 4, 2006, at 2:50 PM, William James wrote:

>
> It's not just Ruby that requires the extra brackets.
>
> echo BEGIN{print "123 f 987" ~ /[[:alpha:]]/} | gawk -f -
> 1
>

Yeah, I figured it was probably pretty standard, it really makes  
sense--otherwise, the regex parser wouldn't be able to tell if the  
programmer really just wants to match against the specific  
characters :, a, l, p, and h.

-- Brian