That is why I amended my original post from "regex" to "character class" a regex as soon as I read it.
Steve Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steven Tolkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Cantrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:37 AM > To: Tolkin, Steve > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Posix constructs in regex... > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote: > > I have always wanted a warning if a literal character > > occurs in a regex twice. That would have caught this error. > > I don't fancy warnings when I do: > /^foo:(.*):bar/ > > -- > David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | > http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david > > WARNING! People in front of screen are stupider than they appear > -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in the Monastery >
