Why does this pattern:
[A-z]+
Matches this successfully?
[][][][
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Use `[A-Za-z]`. It matches according to the ASCII table – ctwheels Feb 23 '18 at 21:07
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1Because in ASCII the `[]` characters are between the lower and upper case letters. – Eugene Sh. Feb 23 '18 at 21:08
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You probably want `[A-Za-z]`, or use the `/i` option. – Alex Howansky Feb 23 '18 at 21:09
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As others said, the brackets are between 'A' and 'z' in the ASCII table. Snippet: `for ($i = ord('A'); $i <= ord('z'); $i++) { echo chr($i); }` => `ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_\`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz` – Steven Spasbo Feb 23 '18 at 23:12