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Re: incorrect match

2004-11-16 10:50:37
At 11:19 2004-11-16 +0100, Dallman Ross wrote:
[escaped bracket pair in a regexp]
That will work fine.  In truth, you don't need the slash before the "]"
though, only before its lefty mate.  Many people use both slashes for,
I don't know, symmetry or parallelism, but the "]" char doesn't require
it.  No harm done by one, though.

Symmetry thing. Ensures that it isn't mistaken by a human for the close of an actual character class.

dman (we lefties need to have an escape to work right) :-)

If right handed people use the left half of their brain, and left handed people use the right half of their brain, then left handed people are the only people in their right minds.

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