in reply to Re: Re: Just a regex quickie
in thread Just a regex quickie

I was hoping that by breaking the problem into its component parts, you'd figure out where you went wrong on your own.

cmp is for ascii comparisons. <=> is for numeric comparisons. (A number, for reference, is generally (thought not exhaustively) defined as matching /^-?(?:\d+(?:\.\d*))|(?:\.\d+)$/.)

Your regex is pulling characters that match (roughly) /[a-zA-Z_0-9\s]/. (I'm sure I missed a few characters that match \w.)

Do you see the issue now?

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