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| Posted by
| Faux
United Kingdom (77 posts) Bio
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| Mon 24 Jan 2005 10:20 AM (UTC) |
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| As far as I can determine, the colon (":") character doesn't require escaping in regular expressions?
eg.
Entering and pressing `Convert to Regular Expression` produces: |
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| Posted by
| Poromenos
Greece (1,037 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Mon 24 Jan 2005 02:58 PM (UTC) Amended on Mon 24 Jan 2005 02:59 PM (UTC) by Poromenos
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| | Nick just kinda went crazy with those and added backslashes everywhere, since the Regex docs say that it doesn't hurt. |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,133 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Wed 26 Jan 2005 01:14 AM (UTC) |
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| | It's not really a bug. The regexp will work, but I think that it would be a bug to escape (say) 1 because \1 has a special meaning. However escaping special characters is just being "safe". |
- Nick Gammon
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