Re: regex of the month (decade?)

Dan Collins wrote:
> Last I checked, '.' matches \s. Oh, and '/' uis a pretty important
> character, and should really be escaped.

No, '.' inside [] matches '.'.  The [.\s] is looking for a period or 
whitespace.

And there's no reason to escape '/' if you're not using slashes for the 
regex delimiters.  If you want to escape it because you make a habit to 
do so in regexes, that's fine, but it's not an error not to.

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Keith C. Ivey <[email protected]>
Washington, DC