[Issue 1249] regular expression pattern [.] not matches any character

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------- Comment #3 from baryluk at mpi.int.pl  2007-06-21 11:19 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think '.' and other special characters  lose their special meaning inside a
> character class.  So [.()$^] should match either a period, a paren, a
> dollar-sign, or a caret, and nothing else.

You are rigth, but actually ^ must be escaped: [.()$\^]. And IMHO this is not a
bug. One can discuss but most of regular expression eninges also does so.


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