On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:18:26AM +0200, Joost de Heer wrote: > > 1. RewriteRule ^topics/([a-zA-Z-]+) > > - inside a set has a special meaning so you have to escape it: > RewriteRule ^topics/([a-zA-Z\-]+) It is definitely correct this way, but I don't get why is it not correct at the original form. As I remember, in perl regular expressions - only has a special meaning inside [] if it is not in the first or the last position. So [A-Z-] should be equivalent of [A-Z\-], while [A-Z] not equivalent of [A\-Z]. Baldvin --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx