On 7 June 2010 18:26, Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:18 -0300, Jo?o C?ndido de Souza Neto wrote:
>
>> May be this:
>>
>> /.*?[(@#$%].*/
>>
>> "Floyd Resler" <fres...@adex-intl.com> escreveu na mensagem
>> news:3c7c9ee4-786e-4447-859e-ad0556359...@adex-intl.com...
>> I need to test for the existence of at least one punctuation (@#$%')
>> character in a string.  What would my regular expression be?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Floyd
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> You don't need the . character there to match anything. Also, ( and $
> have a special meaning in regex, so should be escaped to avoid any
> confusion or problems.
>

( and $ have no special meaning inside square brackets - you don't
need to escape them there.

Regards
Peter

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