Jim, It appears the following character class is rejected by RE: [-\\w]
I believe this is a bug in RE. You can get around the problem by reversing the expression to: [\\w-] Reuben -----Original Message----- From: Jim K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:27 PM To: regexp-user@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Bad character class exception on pattern that works for JDK's Pattern class I'd like to use a email validation pattern that I came across on a Perl users board. It works just fine with Java's regex.Pattern class but fails to compile when using Apache Regexp. The RECompiler class returns a Bad character exception. The pattern I'm trying to use is: ^([0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\\.)+[a-zA -Z] {2,9})$ If I strip out all the groups then RE will accept the pattern. I know that RE supports groups, but maybe not nested groups? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
