Wacek Kusnierczyk <[email protected]> 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. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [email protected] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
