On 6/6/05, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I'm using regular expressions to parse job titles and I had C# in a pattern > and it was not working correctly. I corrected the problem with C\#. What > does C# match? >
"#" has no special meaning in REs (it's not a metacharacter), so you would have to show us some code that fails with the above pattern. Off-hand I can't think of any reason why "C\#" would match while "C#" would not. Regards, -- Offer Kaye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>