[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54592] regexprep gets confused when parentheses should be processed

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #54592 (project octave):


computer
ans =
    'PCWIN64'
version
ans =
    '9.5.0.882065 (R2018b) Prerelease'
regexprep ('tes)t', ')', '')
ans =
    'test'
regexprep ('tes)t', ')', 'abc')
ans =
    'tesabct'
regexprep ('tes)t', '(', '')
ans =
    'tes)t'
regexprep ('te(s)t', '(s)', '')
ans =
    'te()t'


and e.g.,:

>> regexprep ('tes]t', ']', 'abc')
ans =
    'tesabct'
>> regexprep ('tes[]t', '[]', 'abc')
ans =
    'tes[]t'


Indeed, as the OP wrote Matlab apparently searches for matching parens / sq.
brackets before deciding they're to be treated as special characters.


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