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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:37:53 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp doubt
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> both of them yield a
>
> regexp: malformed `[]'
>
> error.
> I forgot to mention and I had an alternative solution from the
> beginning /stat[abc]?([ ;]|-)/
> I'm just wondering the reason the original version failed.

As I recall, if you're going to include a hyphen in a character
class, it has to be the first character so that it isn't taken to
indicate a range.

BLS