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Posted by Marcus on 08/03/06 21:59
Hello,
I am trying to include the literal '\' (backslash) character in a regex.
I am not sure if I need to escape it, however...
From http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html:
"To include a backslash as a character without any special meaning
inside a character class, you have to escape it with another backslash.
[\\x] matches a backslash or an x."
From http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=7&topic=regex:
"...all other special characters, including `\', lose their special
significance within a bracket expression."
These seem to contradict each other. Both ways *seem* to work, but I am
not familiar enough with regex's to know if one is producing some other
side effect that I am not aware of. Thanks a bunch for your help.
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