Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Dates, times, and month names

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

At 11:04 AM +0200 3/30/1999, Christian Brechbühler wrote:
>The mismatch is not in the hours, but in the seconds!
>
>  00:000     does not really match
>  sss

Yeah...sorry 'bout that. :P

> Excerpt of reply (sent 28 March 1999) by Eric Albert:
>> That's easily fixed by changing (?:\.\d+)? to (?:[\.:]\d+)?
>
>The unnecessary backslash in [.:] might confuse me.  The Camel (p. 64,
>third item of rule 6) explains character classes and the special
>meaning of '^', '-', '\', and ']'.  It then says:
>:   Note that most other metacharacters lose their meta-ness inside
>:   square brackets.

Hmph.  Thanks for pointing that out....  Then again, I tend to assume that
'\' is needed to escape anything that normally requires escaping, so for
me, dropping '\' might be confusing.  Of course, you could easily argue
that I should just learn the intricacies of the language a bit better. :)

-Eric

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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
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