Zdenek Sekera wrote:
Sorry, I should have been clearer:Note the placement of the '+' in my pattern, somewhere in the middle, there it doesn't cause any problem: if (char =~ '\m[;|<>?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*(){}\\_+-[\]/\"]' ^ | here The erroneous (in my judgement) patterns are (e.g.) are these: if (char =~ '\m[;|<>?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*(){}\\_-[\]/\"+]') if (char =~ '\m[;|<>?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*(){}\\_-[\]/\"\+]') So the question is why is it OK to have '+' in the middle and not at the end?
It has nothing to do with +, and everything to do with - . The "-" is a range character, more commonly seen with something like [a-z] (which stands for all lower case characters).
You need to escape the minus sign (ie. \-). Regards, Chip Campbell
