From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-06-21T04:43:35+09:00
Subject: Re: RegEx

Hi --

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, prubel@bbn.com wrote:

>
> Hi Justin,
>
>
> Justin To writes:
> > Awesome, thanks for the help... I have one other regex question though,
> > pertaining to the same problem I'm trying to do
> >
> > /^(\d+\.[(7)(11)])$/
> >
> > That's my regex... it's suppose to match something like:
> >
> > 213823.7
> > or
> > 848494223.11
>
> One interesting thing to note is that it will match 7.1 but not 7.11.
>
> What you need is some alteration, you want either 7 or 11. What you
> have is 'choose from the set,' []. Where the set ends up containing
> the characters 7 and 1.

And, in this case, the characters ( and ) :-)


David

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