Re: Order of terms in square braces

Because dashes in character classes are used to express ranges, like [a-z], except when they are the first item. Because of this you should always either put them as the first item, or escape them with \

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Re^2: Order of terms in square braces by TOD (Friar) on Feb 03, 2007 at 05:10 UTC
first or last element in the class.	[reply]
Re^3: Order of terms in square braces by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 03, 2007 at 07:12 UTC
or following a POSIX class or preceeding a POSIX class or following `^` if the `^` is the first character etc Basically, anywhere it doesn't make sense to treat it as a range seperator. Escaping `-` (like the OP needlessly did for `(` and `)`) will force it to match literally.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Order of terms in square braces by throop (Chaplain) on Feb 05, 2007 at 19:37 UTC
d'Oh. I should have known that. Thanks. throop `The people are bright and certain, Where I am dim and confused; The people are clever and wise, Where I am dull and ignorant,` [download]	[reply] [d/l]