Re: Split on whitespace or other criteria

Just curious ... why do people seem to use

/(?=\-)/
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... in regex, instead of ...

/[\-]/
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Is the latter variant inferior? going out of style?

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Re^2: Split on whitespace or other criteria by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jan 30, 2005 at 23:12 UTC
The former is a lookahead; it does not eat a character. The latter consumes the "-". Oh, there's no need to backslash it. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply]