[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45084] regexptranslate incorrectly escapes "<" and ">", maybe others

[Rik]

Update of bug #45084 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I'm pretty sure I was the one that coded that regular expression and I did it
because it was simplest to escape everything that might be a regular
expression, rather than to come up with a definitive list of the characters to
escape.

But we could go the other way as well and list everything that seems like a
possible pattern.  I made that change on the development branch here
(http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/89616a98b02e).  I also improved
the speed of the 'wildcard' option by 44% while I was modifying the function.

I made the change on the development branch, but I will also pull it across to
the stable branch.

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