Re: Strange re-search-forward

[Andreas Röhler]

On 24.02.2016 10:08, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> On 2016-02-24, at 09:27, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
>
> > Evaluating in buffer
> >
> > (re-search-forward "[ -?]+" nil t)
> >
> > foo.bar baz
> >
> > ;;;;;;;
> >
> > matches the period after foo.
> >
> > Any explanation?
> space: ascii 32
> period: ascii 46
> question mark: ascii 63
>
> 46 ∈ {32,...,63}
>
> so what's wrong?

Ohh, shame on me.

Minus must come first if meant literally.

Thanks!