| Title | Test
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                    VAT Numbers format verification (IE) | 
            
                | Expression | (IE-?)?[0-9][0-9A-Z\+\*][0-9]{5}[A-Z] | 
            
                | Description | VAT Numbers format verification (Ireland) with support for optional member state definition.  
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                | Matches | IE4*12345Z | 0012345K | 
            
                | Non-Matches | IE4-12345Z | 00123456 | 
            
                | Author | Rating:  Vassilis Petroulias | 
            
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	                Title: not needed escape?
	                Name: tom
	                Date: 11/26/2010 10:35:22 AM
	                Comment: 
Why you escape + and * in [], they are not special characters when in character_group. This patter allows IE4\12345Z but shouldn't I guess.