Posted by none on 02/16/06 22:22

Al13n wrote:
>>In a regular expression character class definition (the bit in the []s), a
>>hyphen denotes a range of characters, so [a-z] will match all lowercase
>>letters of the alphabet, and [0-9] will match all numbers from 0 to 9. If
>>you escape your hyphen, it doesn't matter where you put it in your class.
>>
>>$strDate = preg_split('/[\/\-\.]/', $my_date);
> Absolutely right. Also, this is rather trivial, but you shouldn't need to
> escape the . in a character class, it's only a token when used outside a
> character class. When inside a character class, the dot as well as
> quantifiers (like *, ? etc.) are interpreted as literals.

Allen and Dave:

Thanks very much for your help. I'm surprised that /[\.\/-]/ worked at
all! A better way to have written it would have been: #[./\-]# which
works great.

Thanks, again.

Ken

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