From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T09:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is this regex invalid?

Christopher Schneider <cschneid@colostate.edu> writes:

> I'm pretty sure the dash needs to be escaped in regular expressions.   
> The second one works since it is the last character in the character  
> class, and hence isn't defining a range.
>
> /([0-9]*)([^\+\- ]+)(.*)/ should work - note the escaped dash.

Rubbish.  In character ranges, \ is not special.

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