I'm going to re-enter your RE as though it has the /x modifier so that it's easier to comment on what it's doing... here goes: 

/
.*               # Match any quantity of any character (or 
                 # none at all)
(                # group together, and capture.
    [\$#\%>~]    # match any one of the following: $#%>~
  |              # OR
    \@\w~\$      # match literal @, a word character, and $
  |              # OR
    \\\[\\e\[0m\\\] \[0m
                 # match "\[\e[0m\] [0m"
)                # end capturing / grouping.
\s?              # match a single optional whitespace
/x               # End regexp.

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So you put that all together and you get a regexp that will match a pretty wierd looking string.

The following strings should match (and MANY others too):

"Hi, I'm Dave\[\e[0m\] [0m"

"121#@$14asdf$"

"@h~$"

Looks pretty peculiar to me.


Dave

In reply to Re: This looks like someone sneezed and hit the keyboard by davido
in thread This looks like someone sneezed and hit the keyboard by Anonymous Monk

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