expanding class digit range

[zdilto]

range like [0-80] will only match 1 digit at a time:

exrex "[0-80]"
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
0

i think is a good feature if exrex can count the whole range and from 0 to 80:
0
1
2
..
23
..
65
..
80

it will facilate regex pattern considerably like in generating the following local ip address range: 192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255
for generating this ips one need to write a complex regex:

"^192\.168\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2([0-4]\d|5[0-5]))\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2([0-4]\d|5[0-5]))$"

but if supported we will only write:

"^192\.168\.[0-255]\.[0-255]$"

for making things easier we can write [n--m] or [n..m] [0--100] or [0..100] avoiding collision with regex class handling

[rautamiekka]

Yep, that's the RegEx standard, I know from having tried this with other RegEx Engines. Couldn't possibly had been so hard to make the ranges arbitrary instead of single integers.

[sebix]

Why do you want to deviate from the regex standard, breaking compatibility, leading to unexpected behaviour?