On Feb 5, Shawn said: > In a regex, the '\b' can stand for: > 1) a boundry between a word and non-word char > 2) bakcspace > > What is the precedence for figuring out which is being called?
\b is ONLY "backspace" when found inside a character class. Everywhere else it represents a word boundary. You might want to use \010 or \x08 for "backspace", since it's better than [\b]. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
