Re: [^\]] in basic regexes

[Andreas Schwab]

Wacek Kusnierczyk <address@hidden> writes:

> if, as you seem to imply, the pattern is 'a non-backslash followed by a
> closing bracket', then
> - the rightmost closing bracket is *outside* of any class (the class
> [^\] has been closed), thus

Right.

> - it is (should be) a *metacharacter*, and and as such

Wrong.

> - it must be taken as *closing a class*, which is not there and it
> neither should match the closing bracket in the data (which it does in
> some of the other examples)

The ']' character is only special when part of a bracket expression.  In
all other contexts it just matches itself.

Andreas.

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