# HG changeset patch
# User Rik <rik@octave.org>
# Date 1407286255 25200
# Node ID 12d1297d3a380e34dca508dcb35fd06c455a17d4
# Parent  7141d9728ee022e831da1ba79a81b30d1d80de34
ls.m: Fix bug listing directories with spaces in name (bug #42920)

* ls.m: Order brackets first within character class so that PCRE recognizes
them rather than believing they end the character class.

diff --git a/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/ls.m
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
       args = regexprep (args, '([^\w.*?])', '^$1');
     else
       ## Escape any special characters in filename
-      args = regexprep (args, '([^\w.*?-[]])', '\\$1');
+      args = regexprep (args, '([^][\w.*?-])', '\\$1');
     endif
     args = sprintf ("%s ", args{:});
   else