You actually don't need to escape most characters inside a character class,
the escaping of the period was unnecessary.
I've tried using the example regex ([-\w ,/\n\"']{20,200}), and I'm _still_
getting lots of highlighted snippets that don't match the regex (starting
with a period, etc.) Has any
Shouldn't you escape the question mark at the end too?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Mark Ferguson wrote:
> Someone helped me with the regex and pointed out a couple mistakes, most
> notably the extra quantifier in .*{400,600}. My new regex is this:
>
> \w.{400,600}[\.!?]
>
> Unfortunately, my
Someone helped me with the regex and pointed out a couple mistakes, most
notably the extra quantifier in .*{400,600}. My new regex is this:
\w.{400,600}[\.!?]
Unfortunately, my results still aren't any better. Some results start with a
word character, some don't, and none seem to end with punctua
