[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #54592] regexp should escape unpaired brackets and parentheses for Matlab compatibility

[Rik]

Update of bug #54592 (project octave):

                Priority:              5 - Normal => 4                      
                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   4.4.0 => dev                    
                 Summary: regexprep gets confused when parentheses should be
processed => regexp should escape unpaired brackets and parentheses for Matlab
compatibility

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Follow-up Comment #11:

So it would seem that Matlab pre-processes the regular expression and escapes
non-paired special characters such as '[', ']', '(', ')'.  It also seems to be
smart enough to recognize when one of these characters has already been
escaped.

Marking as confirmed.  The easy workaround, for the time being, is to escape
unpaire brackets and parentheses yourself in the regular expression.  Because
there is a workaround I am lowering the priority slightly to 4.

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