Preference:Separator character question

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Apr 15 10:57:56 EDT 2006


Quoting Bengt Thuree <bengt at thuree.com>:

> Hi
>
> Sorry, It's me again...:)
>
> Since I am not a native english speaker, I would like to have some help
> in explaining what the following means.
>
> Any single non-alphanumeric unicode character.
>
> To me, alphanumeric means a-z, A-Z, 0-9 plus .,;: etc...

Nope, alphanumeric is [a-zA-z0-9].  Alpha == letter.  Numeric == number.
Punctuation characters are generally not included in "alphanumeric."

> and non infront of it sort of removes all possible single characters,
> or?
>
> This from the tooltip of Preference:Accounts:Separator
> Character:Character.

-derek

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