Nope... the . loses its metaness when inside the character class... where the regexp *does* stuff up is that it allows more than one decimal point in the string...
deen "yayy I know something!" hameed On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, John Edwards wrote: > Oh. One more thing. > > Your regex should have the . escaped. Currently it is matching on either a > number or *any character* between the a and z. Although this works, it may > bite you if you have a line like this... > > 30000034364717283459322a15f32zM 042001H > > which you don't want to include in the results. > > Here is how it should look > > /a([\d\.]+)z/ > > John -- Deen Hameed - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - May The Source Be With You, fLuke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
