> > Any suggestions? Thanks for your help and thoughts. > > It is much easier to define the set all chars must be in then not. Use > the =! which is the complement of all charachters matched by =~. > Alternatively, I believe there is a c option you can use. > > -Dan
That (I presume) should be !~ instead of != to complement =~ as opposed to ==. When trying to include a dash in a character class (and not make it a range), [], place it as the first character in the class, when including a carat ^ do NOT place it as the first character (as that negates the class). The other problem I would see is in more complex URLs, for instance @ can be used to separate the authentication portion of a URL from the rest, a colon can indicate a port, and your example where semi-colons can be used to separate key/value pairs in the query string. You can likely catch 99% of bad URLs, just depends on how important that other 1% is.... Good luck, http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
