Re: RegEx: Why is [.] not a valid character class?

in reply to RegEx: Why is [.] not a valid character class?

"Why is '\n' handled in a special way?" Because \n IS special, especially in the past when text was often line-oriented. Simply add /s (it has no other side effects) or use (?:.|\n). In Perl6, /s is on my default.

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Re^2: RegEx: Why is [.] not a valid character class? by ihb (Deacon) on Nov 18, 2004 at 02:49 UTC
`(?:.\|\n)` is unnecessary slow due to the alternation. `(?s:.)` doesn't suffer from that. `ihb` See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read! Read argumentation in its context!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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