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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: ' in character class
Message-ID: <9115@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 11 Aug 90 18:12:05 GMT
References: <1990Aug11.001936.16075@comm.wang.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Aug11.001936.16075@comm.wang.com> lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) writes:
: 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.

The problem isn't \' but \-.   This is fixed in patchlevel 27.

Larry