On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote:

Are we not meant to delimit characters like a minus sign?

Ex:
header SUBJ_RUSS_CHAR                   Subject:raw =~ /koi8\-r/i

Only where they have special meaning, and a dash is only "special" in a character set, e.g. [A-Z]. I have found the simplest way to avoid misinterpretation in that context is to put the dash first, e.g. [-abcde12345]

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