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Re: [Beaver-devel] Fixed strings inside extended regular expressions
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Riccardo Persichetti |
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Re: [Beaver-devel] Fixed strings inside extended regular expressions |
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 12:07:46 +0200 |
Hi Michael,
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:31:56 -0400
Michael Terry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michael Terry wrote:
> > Anyone know how to do this? (As a brute force strategy, I could
> > surround each letter in the user string with '[' and ']', but that
> > seems ugly, especially since I'd have to be careful with characters
> > like '^'.)
> Make that escape each character with a backslash. Still ugly though.
> Any better way?
as far as i know, i think that escaping those special characters is
the only way to achieve what you need... (at least this is what i've
always done when playing with regexps)
regards,
riccardo
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