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Re:My favorite regex of all time by mutation on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @04:34AM (#4777193)
It doesn't. Space is significant here, and if '-' is a the front of the matching character class it matches literal '-'. Your regex '[- ~]' matches either '-' or ' ' or '~'.
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