Re: regexp question

Regex special characters act differently when they are within a bracketed character class, and many of them (including .) no longer have a special meaning there. See "Special Characters Inside a Bracketed Character Class" in perlrecharclass for the full list.

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Re^2: regexp question by ramprasad27 (Sexton) on Oct 28, 2011 at 07:13 UTC
isnt that confusing as to what special variables have (no special/special) meaning inside character class? isnt this that makes perl look ugly some times?	[reply]
Re^3: regexp question by MVS (Monk) on Oct 28, 2011 at 07:50 UTC
Maybe a little at first, but you'll quickly get used to that after looking at enough regular expressions. Besides, as johnny_carlos mentioned above, some of the special characters wouldn't make sense when you think of them as part of a character class.	[reply]