----- Original Message -----
From: Marcelo E. Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: M.W. Koskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Brent Buckalew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: probably a simple matter but...
> >> "M.W. Koskamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > \s* will match any number of spaces ([0-9.\-]*) will match the
> > largest sequence of any character since there is a dot in the
> > expression.....
>
> No. A '.' inside a character class is literal.
>
sorry
Maarten