Re: [Rails] Is apostrophe (') something special in a regex if at end?

On 27 December 2010 16:59, David Kahn <dk@structuralartistry.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> It is the minus that is a special char (as in a-z) if you escape the
>> minus it is ok.
>
> Yes I see you are right ---the weird part is that the minus is getting
> passed not as a special character in the first examples ( "Billy-Bob" =~
> /^[a-zA-Z' -]*$/ returns 0!) .... anyhow, I will remember than and start
> escaping it.

Yes I wondered about that. Either it is a bug or a documented feature
that - does not need to be escaped in some circumstances. Or perhaps
[a-zA-Z -] means something that neither of us understands.

Colin

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