Re: [bug-gawk] How to escape a string into its regex form

[Peng Yu]

On 9/8/19, Wolfgang Laun <address@hidden> wrote:
> "match the string *exactly*"
> What's wrong with "=="?
>
> The gsub for enclosing metacharacters in brackets might also be written as:
>    gsub( /[][$^*()+{}|.?/]/, "[&]", regex );
> There's no need to use octal escapes.
> And, just to be on the safe side, I'd include the solidus, in case someone
> wants this to generate code, i.e., the result should appear verbatim in an
> awk program.

This does not deal with ^ correctly. What is the best way to fix it? Thanks.

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Regards,
Peng