Thanks for your help everyone, this line looked really confusing at first. I was beginning to wonder what ? meant but now I know it means it's optional, which makes sense.

So let me get this straight. The part before the (? matches anything that begins with a dot, a digit or more and a -? If so, what does everything inside (?: ) do? Only thing I can think of is before it hits that group it will ONLY match a dot, a - or a set of digits and the group itself allows you to use any combination of them (ie -1.094).

Am I anywhere close? One other thing, you said it allows two decimal points, how can I only get it to accept one?

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sulfericacid

In reply to Re: What does this regex do? by sulfericacid
in thread What does this regex do? by sulfericacid

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