On Jan 7, McCollum, Frank said: >so, if a character is inside of square brackets [], then perl recognizes >that it is part of a character class and never uses it as a quantifier or >special character??
Very few characters need escaping a char class. ] does (unless it's the first character of the class), ^ does (ONLY when it's the first character of the class and you don't want it to mean "take the opposite of this char class"), and - does (ONLY when it is between two characters that would otherwise cause it to form a range). Then of course $ and @ need it, but that's so that you're not making a variable by mistake. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
