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Re: Using a regular expression to validate a file name

On 17-Jul-09, at 11:37 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


On 17/07/2009, at 6:57 AM, Walden H. Leverich wrote:

Forgot that \w includes underscore (_). Just another reason not to use
\w, and use "A-Za-z0-9_" as your intent is more obvious. :-)

It's a regular expression--"obvious" is not one of the criteria :)


Thanks Simon - that's the best laugh I've had all week.

And probably also qualifies for "Truth of the week".


Jon Paris

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