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What is "[$\w]*" for? That I don't understand. Thanks for the regexp anyway.

Raphael St
– Raphael St

2014-05-25 17:34:18 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2014 at 17:34
[$\w] matches all letters, numbers, underscores and $ characters. This is to match every character that can be part of a variable name (but not the first character, that cannot be a number).

lovasoa
– lovasoa

2014-05-25 22:31:34 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2014 at 22:31
Isn't it alread done by "[\$A-Za-z_]" ?? Plus, shouldn't the short cut '\w' be outside of a class definition "[]"

Raphael St
– Raphael St

2014-05-25 23:01:47 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2014 at 23:01

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