Hi --

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Stefano Crocco wrote:

> On Thursday 21 August 2008, Adam Akhtar wrote:
>> why does this regexpression match
>>
>> \w+\d+
>>
>> match 68 in this
>>
>> "1/8 Fender '68 TELECASTER Miniature(Pink Paisley)[RARE]",
>>
>> ive told it to at least match one letter before it matches any
>> numbers???
>>
>> (i dont actually want it to match anything with this sentance).
>
> It's because \w stands for [a-zA-Z0-9], that is an uppercase letter or a
> lowercase letter or a digit.

And also underscore.


David

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