Sunday, October 29, 2017

Re: Puzzling regexp match

On 29/10/2017 19:45, Dominique Pellé wrote:
> Lifepillar <lifepillar@lifepillar.me> wrote:
>
>> I might be missing something trivial, but I need others's
>> eyes to look at it. Why are these patterns
>>
>> :echo match('x', "[)-~]")
>> :echo match('x', "[(-~]")
>> :echo match('x', "[(->]")
>> :echo match('x', "[)->]")
>>
>> matching? It seems they match any character.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Life.
>
> When you type something like [0-9] it matches
> any number between 0 and 9. Similarly, when
> you type [)-~] it matches any character between
> ) and ~ (which includes all letters and more).

Ah right, thanks! You know, when you are staring at something
for a while and cannot see the obvious...

Life.

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