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Re: [^\]] in basic regexes
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: [^\]] in basic regexes |
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Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:01:08 +0100 |
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Wacek Kusnierczyk <address@hidden> writes:
> however, in that code the pattern was '[^\]]*' (with the idea that the
> character ']' is a metacharacter and therefore must be escaped).
Inside bracket expressions the backslash is not special. Thus '[^\]]'
is a pattern that matches a non-backslash character followed by ']', and
'[\]' does not qualify.
Andreas.
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