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Re: Regular expressions and user-escaped characters
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Joost Kremers |
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Re: Regular expressions and user-escaped characters |
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Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:50:39 +0100 |
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On Mon, Dec 02 2024, Joost Kremers wrote:
> You may get away with something like "[^\\][[]", though keep in mind that
> that does not match a ?[ not preceded by a backslash, but rather a ?[
> preceded by a character that is not a backslash.
Mind you, what I forgot to mention: this means that a ?[ at the start of a
string won't be found. A possible solution to that might be to prepend some
character to the string before matching.
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Joost Kremers
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