[ic] Nifty enhancement to [query ...]

[Jason Kohles]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:49:01PM -0500, Jim Balcom wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Jon Jensen wrote:
> JJ>>On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Jason Kohles wrote:
> JJ>>
> JJ>>> Of course you should also escape the period in this regexp, or else you will
> JJ>>> end up only getting rid of newlines.  =)
> JJ>>
> JJ>>That's not correct. A period inside a character group [...] is just a
> JJ>>period.
> 
> This is disturbing:
> 
> Two Redhat experts having an argument in public and at least one of them
> passing on incorrect information.
> 
I'm terribly sorry to have been the one to break the news to you that even
the experts on the list are human.  However, I didn't see an argument, I
posted what I thought was a simple correction, and was in turn corrected.
Mea culpa.  I'm also terribly sorry if my incorrect information caused you
to waste valuable milliseconds of your life by including a useless backslash,
but if you were really concerned about it, you could have settled the
"argument" simply by trying it out, which would probably have taken the
same amount of time that it took to complain.

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