bug in regex engine?
Eddy De Greef
eddy_de_greef at scarlet.be
Wed Jul 25 00:06:47 CEST 2007
Joerg Fischer wrote:
> But actually all the negated escape sequences behave as if they were
> not negated inside a character class, that is [\L] (or [\S], [\D],
> ...) is just the lowercase version [\l].
>
> Is this a bug in the regex engine or in the documentation?
It's a bug in the regex engine, I would say. I see no reason why negated
shortcuts should behave differently inside character classes. Other
RE engines implement it correctly. I'll see whether I can fix it.
Eddy
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