Re: Unquoted special characters in regexps

[Andreas Schwab]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

>>From my previous message:
>
>     But "quoting" `]' by writing "[]]" instead of just `]', seems
>     contorted, even though it would be less confusing than "\\]".
>
> But if you *really* want to emphasize that the `]' does not close a
> character alternative, "[]]" is the only way I know to do that.
> "\\]" does not do the job.

JFTR, in AWK regexps the backslash retains its special meaning inside
character lists.

Andreas.

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