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Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 14:19:56 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Error in PHP documentation
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:11 PM Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have noticed an error, please can someone with update rights fix it.
>
> https://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.character-classes.php
>
> 7th paragraph contains:
>
> However, if the "]" is escaped with a backslash it is interpreted as the end of
> range, so [W-\]46] is interpreted as a single class containing a range followed
> by two separate characters.
>
> The word NOT is missing, it should read:
>
> However, if the "]" is escaped with a backslash it is NOT interpreted as the end of
> range, so [W-\]46] is interpreted as a single class containing a range followed
> by two separate characters.
>

No, there's no error and nothing missing. You're misinterpreting what it says.

"Range" means the "W-\]" part. As in a range of characters between W and ].

Cheers,
Andrey.