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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: ' in character class
Message-ID: <1990Aug11.001936.16075@comm.wang.com>
Date: 11 Aug 90 00:19:36 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms.
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Isn't there some way to get a ' into a character class?
I want to to do something like:
/[\w\.\-\']+/   ie, match a string of alphanumerics, periods, hyphens and
apostrophes.

But PERL always complains.  If somebody could explain what that 
sequence above really means, and/or how I can what I want, I'd
be most grateful.

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