Re: Problem matching on [.]

[Nick Gammon <nick@...>]

On 15/05/2007, at 9:33 AM, Mark Edgar wrote:

> This could be taken to be an error in PiL, since it disagrees with the
> reference manual, which seems pretty clear on this:
>
> "All classes %x described above may also be used as components in set.
> All other characters in set represent themselves."

Ah I see the reference manual is clearer on this point. I did a quick  
look in my (hard copy) book for a treatment of regular expressions,  
but "regular expression" is not in the index. (I should have looked  
harder).

Thanks for the clarification.

- Nick