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Richard Stiehm
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsSets Regex....
What exactly is the -\w doing in the character set r'[-\w\d+.]+@[-\w\d.]+??? Did I miss something?
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,468 PointsThe characters -\w are specifying two items to match in that character set. The "-" is simply matching the minus sign. The "\w" matches any alphanumeric character and the underscore; this is equivalent to the set [a-zA-Z0-9_].
More on \w in [the docs(https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html)
Richard Stiehm
Courses Plus Student 12,817 PointsGreat thanks