Re: Wrong regex?

\w doesn't match punctuation other than underscores. Specifically, \w+ doesn't match 10.10.10.10

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Re^2: Wrong regex? by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Feb 10, 2010 at 06:38 UTC
`\w` does match the `_` (underscore) punctuation character. But it doesn't match any of the others.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Wrong regex? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 10, 2010 at 06:56 UTC
I don't think of it that way, but yeah, I suppose it is a punctuation mark. Fixed.	[reply]