diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1c1533841..83ac0b37b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2010-08-01  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
+
+	* script/yylex.l (NAME): Remove [:digit:], redundant with [:alnum:].
+
 2010-08-01  Colin Watson  <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
 
 	* docs/grub.texi (Simple configuration): Document GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN
diff --git a/script/yylex.l b/script/yylex.l
index 7d4ea9e4e..e9659832b 100644
--- a/script/yylex.l
+++ b/script/yylex.l
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ COMMENT         #.*$
 
 CHAR            [^{}|&$;<> \t\n\'\"\\]
 DIGITS          [[:digit:]]+
-NAME            [[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:][:digit:]_]*
+NAME            [[:alpha:]_][[:alnum:]_]*
 
 ESC             \\.
 VARIABLE        ${NAME}|$\{{NAME}\}|${DIGITS}|$\{{DIGITS}\}|$\?|$\{\?\}