[rt-devel] RT 4.0.13 REST.pm faulty regex?

[Tim Wiley]

On 10/29/2013 12:04 AM, Jason Baum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We recently upgraded from RT 3.6 to RT 4.0.13, and suddenly a couple previously working Perl scripts that use the RT::Client::REST convenience library (version 0.44) stopped working, and started indicating an error with the regex in /rt-4.0.13/lib/RT/Interface/REST.pm line 141, which in turn references the $field variable defined on line 74 in that same file.
>
> The regex defined there is as follows:
>
> my $field = '[a-z][a-z0-9_- ~/]*’;
>
> Perl is complaining about an “Invalid [] range “_- “ in regex” at this location, which you can see follows the 9 character.
>
> I’m wondering if anyone else has come across this problem and if they have a suggested solution or knows what the correct regex should be.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>

To give a bit more information, Jason & I had added the characters 
behind _- because some of our custom field names contain spaces, ~ & /. 
  If there's a better way to represent that, we're all ears.