On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
> >You might have to throw " .-," into those regexes.
> >
> Doesn't a dot '.' match any single character?
Yup, so it does. I guess that, had I actually I done it, I would have
seen the anomalous results.
> Perhaps " \.-," (note that the dot is escaped with a backslash) or use
> the pre-defined [[:space:]] (also matches Tab and CR (but not LF)?) and
> [[:punct:]] or any of the other pre-defines from 'man -S7 regex':
If you're going to do that, you might as well do it the versatile way and
use '[[:digit:]]', as you mention.
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