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VERY minor regexp change

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Posted by Terry   USA  (87 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Sat 07 Jun 2008 04:10 PM (UTC)
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This is EXTREMELY minor, and might not even be worth changing. In any case, I noticed that the range in regexp, the [] thing, only is accepted as a variable if it's between two parentheses. I think it'd be nicer if [] by itself was considered a variable.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (22,973 posts)  [Biography] bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Sat 07 Jun 2008 09:14 PM (UTC)
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I didn't write the regexp stuff, that comes from the PCRE package. In any case, I wouldn't want to change it because it would break thousands of existing regular expressions. Just imagine all the people who have triggers and aliases with [...] in them at present, and who access the variables (captures) by number. If suddenly the sets also became captures all those numbers would be out.

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