Oh, I can't believe I forgot to put the '-' at the end of the group, thanks for that. As for not needing to escape the '/', I'm afraid you're mistaken, at least for perl 5.14.2. I just tested it, and it doesn't compile: "Unmatched [ in regex;", and vim's highlighting ends the regex there, which in my opinion is reason enough to include it, even if it is unnecessary and benign. I did intend for that group to match one or more times, as some people may put spaces around their '\/-' ( sounds stupid, but there's a lot of stupid out there, and I try to account for all of it that I can ), but thanks for pointing it out.

In reply to Re^2: getting answer 70 years off by derekstucki
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