How many special characters can you realistically use in a regular expression without a single space, letter or digit? Here's one I wrote yesterday.

eregi('href="([^"]+)"[^>]*>([^<]+)',$line,$parts);

Far fetched example? No - it's part of a link checker that picks out a URL and the text that appears on the link ...
(written 2007-01-31 05:57:59)

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