James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Sep 19, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
>
>> Does that work inside character class definitions( [] delimited groups)?
>
> Contrary to what you expect (judging by your later message), it sure 
> does.
> [\saeiou]
> Will match a whitespace or vowel character.
> James Edward Gray II


Whuuf!  That *is* a surprise!  Thanks.  That may make some of my regexps 
much more readable.