Posted by John Dunlop on 08/18/05 11:33

Des wrote:

> Also the tutorial calls up for this ([[:alnum:]])

What tutorial?

> I know this is not what I want before the @ symbol because I want
> some characters befor the @ which may include a dot. But why
> so many brackets around alnum.

It's a 'character class' inside a 'bracket expression'. You
can add other characters or classes inside that bracket
expression.

--
Jock

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