Wow, learn something new every day. I looked it up in perldoc perlop and found this relevant bit:

Non-bracketing delimiters use the same character fore and
aft, but the four sorts of brackets (round, angle, square,
curly) will all nest, which means that

  q{foo{bar}baz}

is the same as

  'foo{bar}baz'

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And if I'd taken more than a second to glance at it, I would have noticed the non-metacharacter '.' inside the square brackets. I'm familiar with that particular pitfall, having done it in my own code many times. But thanks for pointing it out.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: regex by Nkuvu
in thread regex by eweaverp

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