On 27/10/2022 15:02, John Levin via GLLUG wrote:
johnl@Hasek:~/github/statutes$ grep ' [-—. ]\{3,\}$' W*/mon*.txt and every of them are and is hereby obliged to accept, re- ... 'fliqitors autj licences, — Aorb’s ----- IPfipficians, ----- II — -- — -.... - -- - - - — shall be ~ - - —Is there something about the order of characters in regex square brackets? Does the stop have a special meaning when given first?
I think it's the hyphen, which if I recall correctly has a special meaning if anywhere other than the beginning of the character class (certainly I am always in the habit of always putting hyphens at the beginning of character classes, if that's what I want to match).
Andy -- GLLUG mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
