@cindex character classes in patterns
In addition to characters and ranges of characters, character classes
can also contain @dfn{character class expressions}. These are
-expressions enclosed inside @samp{[}: and @samp{:]} delimiters (which
+expressions enclosed inside @samp{[:} and @samp{:]} delimiters (which
themselves must appear between the @samp{[} and @samp{]} of the
character class. Other elements may occur inside the character class,
too). The valid expressions are: