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Re: How do I get a ] into a reg exp?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: How do I get a ] into a reg exp?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:26:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Hansen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:45:58 +0200 Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>> How do I write
>>
>>    (re-search-forward "[a-z\]]")
>
> "[][]" looks odd but works for me.  But IMHO that should be "[\\[\\]]".

No.  \ is not special in character alternatives.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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