[Geany-devel] [Patch] - Improve PHP parser (call tips)

[Nick Treleaven]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:20:37 +0100
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> >You put a weird pattern:
> >[public|protected|private|static]*
> >If you wanted to group, you should use ()
> 
> I didn't want to group, we don't need to know the actual modifier, we
> just want to allow only this subset. And yes, it was a group before but
> there is just no need to.

I think Can is right, [] brackets are only for character ranges, not
string matching. So () brackets are necessary for matching even when
ignoring the group.

Regards,
Nick