[SLUG] Re: Re: Stupid Regex questions..

[Angus Lees <gusl@nospam.cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 03:15:26AM +0000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > hey, i just learnt about collating elements:
> >  [^[.abc.]] is the same as [^a][^b][^c] (ie: `not "abc"')
> 
> Damn, have to pick on you again :) [.abc.] only makes sense if abc is a
> collating element in your locale.  And if that is the case, [^[.abc.]] will
> match any collating element or character in your locale not equal to abc.

bugger, didn't realise (at first read) it was only for locale defined
sequences

oh well, back to [^w][^o][^r][^k]

-- 
 - Gus


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