Re^4: Regex for weird characters

[sulfericacid]

Aren't you supposed to comma separate unsimilar items like that? I don't use regexes all that often but I did test the script and it worked.

[!1]

No, you aren't. Thus the reason that your a-z0-9 works fine. As a contribution to the thread:

# cat match.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -l

while (<DATA>) {
   chomp;
   print "$_ " . (/[^a-z0-9!\@#\$%^&*(),.?~:;<>+ =_'"-]/ ? "contains w
+eird stuff":"is fine");
}

__DATA__
funky town
^-^
b*
f1
top`
# perl match.pl
funky town is fine
^-^ is fine
b* is fine
f1 is fine
top` contains weird stuff
#

[sulfericacid]

I thought a-z0-9 was different because you're given a range of characters instead of singly adding them yourself.

Thanks for correcting my code though.