Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:51:34AM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
>> am Thu, dem 20.12.2007, um 10:36:08 +0000 mailte Howard Cole folgendes:
>>> Your expression works fine Richard, as does '(^| )ho', but can you tell
>>> me why '[ ^]ho' doesn't work?
>> With ^ you means an anchor, but within the brackets it's a simple char.
>
> Err no, it inverts the test. [^ ] means any character *except* a space.
But only if it's the first character within the brackets.
Which is the opposite of how "-" behaves inside square-brackets of course.
Aren't regexps fun :-)
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
